< smiles > It's amazing that they've gone to rating HDD's in terabytes these days. It really doesn't seem all that long ago that they transitioned from rating them in megabytes to gigabytes. Things are in a constant state of change so you just have to roll with it & adapt accordingly.

As much as anything it's probably trial & error to find something that works. With the core 2 duo's on the way out a processor change to a quad might sell. Perhaps upgrade the memory or throw in an SSD as the primary drive with a large capacity traditional drive for storage.

You probably learn more from your failures than your successes. No harm in intentionally going out there and making your mistake as long as you aren't too heavily invested in it.



Worse case ... you can always scrap em' out.