Originally Posted by bret

a couple 15k drives will give you a HUGE performance increase. even like the other poster said, a couple 10k rpm raptors would work wonders. and i have to disagree with the first poster slightly... the harddrive is almost always your bottle neck. it is one of the few mechanical parts left in your system's backbone. it would be really nice to have a system with a mechanical drive as mass storage for media and a electronic medium to store the os and applications.