I've looked at HDD's and DVD's.
I can get a 500 GB HDD and a DVD Drive for about 100 USD (500 DKK)
Dont know if it includes cable though
Here's the parts:
Proshop.dk ApS - Western Digital 3.5" 500GB 'Caviar Green' SATA-300 32MB - WD5000AADS - Pris DKK 309,00 - Harddisk Intern fra Western Digital
Proshop.dk ApS - LG Electronics 20x8x20xDVD+RW 12xDVDRAM Bulk Black - GH22NS40.AUAU50B - Pris DKK 168,00 - Optisk lagring - DVD±RW fra LG Electronics
The DVD is almost certainly OEM because I see the word "bulk" in the description.
I am limited in my understanding due to the language barrier in the descriptions.
OEMs don't have cables at all, at least in USA and I would expect world-wide.
Are you SURE it is SATA rather than IDE?
I'd guess the HD is OEM also, particularly because the picture does not show any retail packaging--which would have cables. I have had the larger brother of that drive (1.5 TB) in my system as a backup drive for 2 months with no issues.
In all likelihood that 500 WD green will have just one platter, which will reduce noise--always a good thing.
Some will tell you to avoid "green" drives as they are not the fastest. True, but not by a large margin. I benchmarked my WD green and it is faster than 7200 RPM drives were say 3 years ago. The WD black series is faster, but you may not notice it.
I well have a look for the cables then :)
And yes i am 100% sure it is SATA on the HDD, but not sure about the dvdI will have a look for another one where it says that it is SATA.
This is the system I built this week only for games:
CPU: AMD Phenom x2 550 Black Edition @ 3.1GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz 9-9-9 Kit (2x2GB)
HARD DRIVE: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB w/ 32MB cache 7200RPM SATA II
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte MA-790GPT-UD3H
GPU: Sapphire ATI Radeon 4890 1GB GDDR5 stock
PSU: Xigmatek NRP-MC651 80 Plus Silver Certified Modular
OPTICAL DRIVE: LG GH 22 series SATA
CHASSIS: Antec Two Hundred
OS: WIndows 7 Ultimate x64 OEM.
The only thing on it is games and hardly any applications. I have a vista desktop to take care of any work.
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