How's this for a Cheap Linux Build. Should I make it cheaper?

[MichaelLindman]

Alternatively, you could salvage an old pc for linux, if it's just schoolwork, watching videos, other internet stuff, etc. A toaster would be good enough.

My Q8300 toaster works pretty well for this use case, Have it setup as my secondary Linux machine (with KVM Switch) for when my main PC is booted into Windows for gaming, just bought a cheapo 60GB SSD for it as well so performance should be more than enough for essentially a web browsing machine.

[anon56517415]

WD Black

Why does it seem like everyone has such a hard on for these drives? They're overpriced plain and simple... if you want reliability you don't have to shell out near that much, for example:

As you can see clearly HGST (Hitachi) has the best drive failure rate by far. According to pcpartpicker (yes I know... not the best place to do price comparisons but it's quick, easy, and usually pretty accurate) the cheapest 1tb black is 69usd, whereas, a 1tb Hitachi ultrastar is a touch over 45usd. $24 dollars saved to throw elsewhere, of course you could go cheaper with smaller capacities.

Alternatively, you could salvage an old pc for linux, if it's just schoolwork, watching videos, other internet stuff, etc. A toaster would be good enough.

BACKBLAZE was also shown to be full of **** and in many real world scenarios what they do in terms of testing doesn't matter to the majority of consumers.