Your hard drive is one of the most important pieces of your system, since all your data resides there! Choosing a drive at Forest is very simple - you decide on a size and choose from our recommended manufacturers! We only endorse one drive manufacturer at this time - and that is Seagate! Any others that aren't on our list do not appear there for good reason - at one time or another, we have used and tested them all, and Seagate performs consistently well.

Now, there is a true revolution in storage to consider - Solid-State Drives from Intel. These drives have no moving parts and basically function as a USB flash drive on steroids. SATA-connected, they enhance the performance of any system beyond your wildest dreams! Available starting at 40GB and in sizes all the way up to 2TB, they're quickly becoming the standard for our corporate workstations.

If you need higher enterprise-level performance and data rates, Seagate has outstanding SAS drives available in the Cheetah and Savvio series. Spinning at 15,000 RPM and using the ultra-high speed SAS interface, these drives can keep up with even the most demanding transactional applications! Pairing these drives with a 3Ware caching array controller further accelerates their speed, giving you near-real-time computing right off the drives!

REMEMBER - No computer company guarantees your data integrity, so it is always EXTREMELY important to back up your data!