I'm looking to purchase a hd for a system I'm building so I would appreciate any advice I can get here. Here's a link to a hd I was looking at.... http://www.superwarehouse.com/p.cfm?p=624217&CMP=KNC-H5W912574407 At that site it's not clear to me whether it is being sold as an OEM or a retail package. I'm looking for retail packages because this is my first time building a computer and I don't want to bother with the hassles of dealing with an OEM drive. The description at that site does say that it includes cables, etc. in the package so it does seem to appear to be a retail version. I know it's not a well known, reputable site like newegg, but I couldn't find any large hard drives like this at newegg that aren't OEM. I just wanted to see what anyone thought of that hd being sold at that site. I would really like to get a 400 gig hd that is being sold in a retail package.

Personally speaking, I never buy ANYTHING unless I can see it, feel it, touch it, taste it, spit on it....BEFORE I fork over the hard earned cash. In other words, you might be better served going to an actual store.

$300?? Are you serious?? Do you really need a HDD that big to begin with? You can get 160GB drives for about $50 (after rebate)...200GB drives sell for about $85 at newegg, & 250GB HDDs for less than $100. You could get 2 x 250GB for less than $200 & have an extra 100GB of storage ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

You're right. Paying about $300 for a 400 gig hd really doesn't make that much sense as I'm planning on having multiple drives in my system anyway. I think I was letting the sight of those large hard drives get the best of me and getting greedy as I want a lot of space. I'm building myself a pretty good system that will be futureproof as well. I found a Seagate 300 gig hd at newegg for $182 so I think I'm going to get one of those, if not two of them because that seems like a much better deal obviously. At first I was thinking that the $400 gig hard drives were the sweet spot for price/performance, but that's obviously not the case. It seems it's really the 250-300 gig drives that are the sweet spot. So I'll just get the 300 gig and use the money I'll save for other parts. My list of ordered parts thus far... - Thermaltake Xaser case VA8000BWS - Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard

I'm also getting the XFX Geforce 6600 GT 128 MB card from Newegg. It was $152.49 after shipping so that was a good deal.