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<blockquote data-quote="spoonraker" data-source="post: 2702357" data-attributes="member: 570956">Oh and while I&#039;m here I&#039;ll chime in on the HDD issue, i know it&#039;s a few pages back, but oh well.I have my computer in a custom made MDF box. The HDD is mounted to the box by simple angle brackets, and it&#039;s mounted vertically. No special rubber mounts or anything. The case is bolted down to the trunk literally no more than a foot away from the cone of my subwoofer. The port and the cone fire directly into the computer. It was built very solidly, all the PCI cards are screwed into the case in multiple spots. Anyway, I&#039;ve been blasting 1000W of ported woofer at it for several months now with absolutely no problems.As for temperatures, if it&#039;s below 10 degrees it&#039;s hit or miss, if it&#039;s 5 or below the computer usually won&#039;t boot. Give it 2 minutes though and it fires up just fine. From what I&#039;ve heard, a laptop HDD will do the exact same thing, only at about 5-10 degrees lower temperatures. I guess if it routinely stays below 5 degrees during the winter where you live, it might be worth the investment to get a laptop HDD, but a remote start can easily be used to help alleviate the problem.As for the comment that laptop HDDs &quot;handle the system better&quot; or whatever... I don&#039;t really understand that. 3.5&#039;&#039; HDDs operate faster and have more storage, I&#039;ve never heard of a laptop HDD that can compete with a regular sized one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spoonraker, post: 2702357, member: 570956"] Oh and while I'm here I'll chime in on the HDD issue, i know it's a few pages back, but oh well. I have my computer in a custom made MDF box. The HDD is mounted to the box by simple angle brackets, and it's mounted vertically. No special rubber mounts or anything. The case is bolted down to the trunk literally no more than a foot away from the cone of my subwoofer. The port and the cone fire directly into the computer. It was built very solidly, all the PCI cards are screwed into the case in multiple spots. Anyway, I've been blasting 1000W of ported woofer at it for several months now with absolutely no problems. As for temperatures, if it's below 10 degrees it's hit or miss, if it's 5 or below the computer usually won't boot. Give it 2 minutes though and it fires up just fine. From what I've heard, a laptop HDD will do the exact same thing, only at about 5-10 degrees lower temperatures. I guess if it routinely stays below 5 degrees during the winter where you live, it might be worth the investment to get a laptop HDD, but a remote start can easily be used to help alleviate the problem. As for the comment that laptop HDDs "handle the system better" or whatever... I don't really understand that. 3.5'' HDDs operate faster and have more storage, I've never heard of a laptop HDD that can compete with a regular sized one. [/QUOTE]

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