oops, sorry for missing the bits, but as i explained i'm a bit of dope when it comes to the techie bits of computers!!
I feel I bought midrange or reasonable and not the cheapest stuff i could.
it's a bought in hard drive ready assembled, an Iomega 250gb firewire/usb2 one
firewire card is an adaptec and it was fitted just before i got the drive.
PCI or whatever, dunno!!
it is a desktop pc and within the recommended spec
When it all worked properly, it was blinding!!