Memory, Hard Drive And Burner
- 1. Wishful Thinking? Silent Home PC For TV, DVD, Recording And Internet Connectivity
- 2. Selection Of HTPC Components
- 3. Memory, Hard Drive And Burner
- 4. Let's Get To Work: Putting Together The HTPC
- 5. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 6. Assembling The HTPC, Continued
- 7. Problems With The Serial ATA Interface: The Hard Drive Is Only Good For The Recycling Bin
- 8. Software Installation
- 9. Last Fine-tuning
- 10. Functional Test In Stress Test
- 11. Stress Test, Continued
- 12. For The Pentium M - Mission Impossible At First
- 13. Waiting For An Update
- 14. Assembling The Second System
- 15. Better Heat Dissipation In The Stress Test
- 16. Sample Configurations
- 17. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 18. Unusable System Components, Continued
- 19. Conclusion
3. Memory, Hard Drive And Burner
Various SD-DDR modules from Infineon, TwinMOS and Take-MS were available for memory.

Two 512 MB modules should be enough
A Serial ATA hard drive from Hitachi with 160 GB should be enough to start with. This is sufficient for recording several hours of TV. The Hiper case is good for any 3.5" drive, even one with an IDE interface. Arranging it would get considerably more expensive if one were to install a 2.5" notebook hard drive. It's a different story with the optical drive. Because of the small dimensions, we have to fall back on a slimline drive for the burner. This structure height is found mainly in notebooks and particularly in PlayStation 2.

A 160 GB hard drive from Hitachi should be enough to start with

Slimline DVD drive with burning capabilities
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