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I forgot about your significant VAT! (which is actually a good tax method in economic terms, but...)

anyway:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/520w-seasonic-bronze-s12ii-520-85-eff-80-plus-bronze-eps-12v-quiet-fan-atx-v23-psu

Actually, here's another a but higher wattage and efficiency:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/620w-seasonic-bronze-s12ii-620-87-eff-80-plus-bronze-quiet-fan-atx-psu

One way to figure out your wattage need is to use a psu calculator.

halbhh2 wrote:

One way to figure out your wattage need is to use a psu calculator.

Yeah, I could get away with a 400W supply (PSU calcs, reviews), hence 500/550W is fine.

Andymc wrote:

MrJP wrote:

Have a look back at some of the recent TR SSD reviews. They covered the whole question of performance scaling with capacity, and had a look at RAID not long ago as well. Sorry I don't have the time right now to track down the right reviews.

Will look for, thanks. I had a quick look for something RAID-related and couldn't find anything, though.
Edit: found, and found RAID.

Yes, that's the one I was remembering. Even ignoring the poor scores in a used state due to lack of TRIM back when that review was written, I didn't see any compelling performance reasons why you'd go with RAID over a larger single drive. However you've clearly done a bucket-load more research than me, so don't rule it out completely if you fancy experimenting. It's all part of the enthusiast experience!