Well unfortunately I have already bought a majority of the parts, as there was a sell on them when I was looking at them so I got them on a discounted rate. I still have to send in mail-in rebates for them as well, so I say I got a pretty good deal. I'm go ahead and run with this setup but I think I will go with the Seagate HHD as you suggested, if I can get better performance out of it. As for the SSD, I am wanting 256MB which is why I went with that one. If you have any suggestions on a better one that has same space, I'm all ears.