Cheers guys. The current drives are seagate, i've read about their firmware issues. I'd like to go western digital this time, but if the seagate firmware can be flashed with a correct fix, and if WD still don't have anything close to the 1.5tb seagate in terms of $/gb in the near future, then i may ...

A couple of links i couldn't post on my first post -

Price list (for comparison sake) - http://www.pricespy.co.nz/

Price list of AMD cpu's - http://www.pricespy.co.nz/cat_2.html#g218

I'm running out of space and will need to rebuild my nas soon, so i was hoping to go a lot greener this time and aim for <40w at idle (with hdd's spun down). Current setup idles at 200w, peaking at 300w when the hard drives spin up. This nas is running 24/7, with no power saving settings currently e...