I am building a home theater computer
I am building a home theater computer and want to have two hard drives. One for running the operating system and programs, and the other for storing data, such as recorded programs and music. I am concerned about reliability and ease of use. I will be working under windows 7 environment. How should the hard drives be configured? How would you answer change if I was using Linux and also if I later want to use it as a server?
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Yes you should use raid 5 as your data (music/video/dvd/tv shows) collection will be there and any drive failure will be catastrophic to you. Raid 5 is not that great for writing but since most of your access will be sustained reads it will shine. An SSD will be overkill (IMHO) as this machine will be booted and then run continuously and basically running just the media center appliction and sharing out the data.
Another piece of media center type applictions is XBMC (open source)
Another piece of media center type applictions is XBMC (open source)
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