Hard drive recommendation as well as Raid question

Lukee · Jul 25, 2011

I am building an XBMC box to store all my DvDs and BluRays.

Would you recoommend raid 5 for this? If not, then which one?

Which hard drives would you recommend?

I'm thinking of 4 x 2TB or so. That should be enough room for what I have.

Thanks in advance.

Automata · Jul 25, 2011

Hitachi drives, hands down. Stay away from Western Digital's Green/Blue/Black drives if you are using a real hardware RAID controller. For software/onboard RAID, you can pretty much use anything you want.

RAID 5 would work fine since you have redundancy since you don't need quick access times or write speeds for media.

Archer0915 · Jul 25, 2011

thideras said:
Hitachi drives, hands down. Stay away from Western Digital's Green/Blue/Black drives if you are using a real hardware RAID controller. For software/onboard RAID, you can pretty much use anything you want.

RAID 5 would work fine since you have redundancy since you don't need quick access times or write speeds for media.

0+1 or 10 or 1+0 would also work well and I think give a bit more speed if you are serving multiple systems with HD content.

The SATA III drives are better especially in raid work so make sure you get them and not SATA II.

Automata · Jul 25, 2011

If you were doing well over 15+ HD streams, I would agree. For a home network, RAID 10 is way overkill and wastes more space.

Archer0915 · Jul 25, 2011

thideras said:
If you were doing well over 15+ HD streams, I would agree. For a home network, RAID 10 is way overkill and wastes more space.

Multiple would be more than 5. I am using a single 2TB SATA drive with an external backup and I serve 5 + the server SD just fine.

Hard drive recommendation as well as Raid question

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