Hard Drive for a HTPC
Any HTPC should have plenty of storage. These days plenty means over 160 GB. This will let you store thousands of pictures, music, TV shows and whatever your heart desires. One of the key things you want to note besides the size is the speed of the drive. Since you might be recording shows, you do not want skipping in your recordings and the speed of the drive is one of the reasons it might miss frames. Getting a drive with at least 7200 RPM and 8 MB of cache will be perfect, like this Western Digital 160 GB drive (B00008BFJW). .