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Just do as someone else suggested and use an Intel chip. In the high end market, there is absolutely no reason not to use Intel right now.
There is no more AMD vs. Intel fights right now because Intel wins hands down. Every benchmark known to man puts Intel ahead in speed and power consumption.
So if you arent willing to negotiate speed, then use an Intel core2 or quad. Overkill for the car though as everyone has said.
And the reliability of a 1Tb vs. 500Gb is negligable. Any vertical storage disk is less reliable than horizontal (less than 400Gb currently) but by less reliable I still mean you will die before the HD does in a car crash.
And 1 platter uses less power than 3.
And why the hell would you use an 80Gb too? You arent going to gain speed. If you honestly think you can squeeze a faster boot time out of a OS dedicated drive, you are crazy.
As for USB, with all that you will need a powered hub. Yes it draws the same amount of power (actually more because it has additional chips to power) but the mobo can only put out 500mA nomatter how you splice it. So 5 ports split off of 1 port self powered, all 5 combined cannot draw more than 500mA. Make it a powered hub and all 5 ports can get their full 500mA.
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