The hard drive won't affect sound quality. If it returns bits different from the ones you put on it, it is broken.
The only way that it would have any effect at all is if your PC was in your listening area and the drive was noisy. Look for 'reliable' (you don't want it to crash and eat your carefully ripped, tagged and organized music) and even with brand names that can be a crap-shoot: have backups of your music just in case your electricity burps and spits on your data. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles