Sata Drives for MP 2010

I want to buy 2 2TB Sata drives for a MP 2010 6 cores.
Should I buy Sata or Sata II (faster?). Compatibility?
Any good/fast/trust brand/model recommendation?
Any european online store to make this purchase?
Thank you very much.

I empathize-- I live in Alaska-- I'm not part of the '48 contiguous states'. Shipping is much more expensive to Alaska although we don't have sales taxes because we are soaked with oil tax revenues. This year's Permanent Fund Revenues (money in the mail) will amount to about 1500 dollars for each family member . . .
Hard drives aren't heavy. Get a shipping estimate. Macsales just sent me some overnight ram and it was cheap (at least the shipping was). Ironically we got a package from UK yesterday too and it was cheap because it wasn't heavy.
Enjoy your new computer. I hope it will work well for you.

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Hello!!
I am here to ask for help. Let me tell you a bit more about my Mac:
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davis5,
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[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA1V4>
[http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA1EVE22>
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Hi there, i have a MSI Board for dual Opteron, and also got the new Windows XP 64 bit (Opteron edition) to try, but the problem gets big is were the hell im gonna put SATA drivers during the windows installation, where there is no 64 bit driver.
Im very disapointed with MSI and VIA Partner, by building Motherboards for Opteron/Atlhon 64, and not giving a damm good support for the upcoming 64 bit platform.
The way i see is either they are laisy or they took a the oportunity to make money by just selling lies.

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Originally posted by Bas
Hi,
That's a bit of a problem at the moment.
Very little manufacturers make Win-64 drivers at the moment as the software isn't released yet.
I'm sure this will change very soon, but for the moment you have to live with it.
As far as I know there are only nVidia and Adaptec drivers, maybe a few more, but there is very little hardware that has Win-64 drivers if they are not included with Win-64.
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Normally when you get those install a device driver notes when installing W7 or Vista, it is due to when someone buys the software online from the microsoft store, downloads the OS installation file, burns it to a DVD and the burn is bad.
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