What a great build! I'm in the process of a build with almost identical components (I'm using 2x500Gb Samsung Spinpoints mounted in the lower chamber) so I'm hugely impressed / grateful for your great illustrated 'how to' guide on cabling the 182! I have a question for you and other members reading ...

I thought I'd read just about every page and posting on SPCR...clearly not!

Thanks for the heads up, Mike!

Thanks for all the advice, below are my responses... Drives ( Wibla, Mike ) - Good point on the drives, I'll go for 2x500GB rather than 1x500 & 1x160 and suspend them as you've suggested. BTW, I've seen plenty of Forum chat about suspending drives but I don't recall seeing a formal 'recommended prac...

Help on building a near-silent PC for recording digital music & for video editing! I've been lurking on SPCR for a fair while, reading all the fantastic information gathered here and sifting through the views on the forums. So, appropriately in my first post, I wanted to say a big thank you to all ...