chickensoup

Yeah, from what I was reading before I purchased these, the increased density of the platters from the 1TB drives (422Gb/in2 vs 329Gb/in2) outweighs the reduction in RPM (over a 7200rpm drive). Most benchmarks put them almost completely on-par with their 1TB 7200rpm drives and in my experience this feels about right. I guess that's why SG opted for the extra 500rpm

I'd have to disagree with this, I've got 5x of these in my unRAID box and they run great. Temps ~29 on idle and ~38 full load but this will obviously vary depending on your case setup. I've been selling these drives at work for months now and haven't seen a single return. There were some firmware issues with the earlier drives but this can be fixed with an update. Seagate drives are easy to flash (most drives are these days) if you were to end up with an older one. Everyone has their preferences though, I tend to lean more towards Seagate/WD than Hitachi/Samsung based on my own experiences but every new model changes the game! Edit: Also AFAIK the Seagate LP's and Seagate Green's are the same drives, the model# has been the same on our drives the only noticable change was the word "green."

I wouldn't recommend the GA-H67M-D2 as this a B2 stepping motherboard and may suffer from SATA controller degredation, although this mostly affects P67. Make sure you get the updated model: GA-H67M-D2-B3. I'm currently running a Gigabyte GA-H57M-USB3 and have had no issues using this motherboard with 5x2TB Seagate LP's & 1x1TB WD GP. The LAN on this board is the RTL8111D (not E) but I would still recommend the board above you were looking at. These boards have good features; # SATA ports, pci-e expandibility, 4 dimms, raid support (just incase). Not to mention the fact that Gigabyte make outstanding quality motherboards. Buy yourself one of the decent Intel NICs that's recommended on the forums and you're set, they're usually better than the onboard LAN anyway and it'll only take up one of those x1 slots. Also, not sure what CPU you were looking at to match this board but I would suggest an i3-2100.