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Okay,
My friend wants to set up an htpc for blu ray rips. It seems that every guide recommends a RAID setup, which from my basic understanding means that the movie is split up to two or more harddrives. But what is the point of doing this?
Let's say that you have all your movies spread across two harddrives, and one harddrive inevitably fails, then you lose all your movies. Whereas if you put individual full movies on one harddrive with no RAID setup, and one harddrive inevitably fails, you only lose half of your movies.
I understand that RAID allows for faster access times, but isn't a single harddrive fast enough to play a blu-ray movie?
Even if you wanted to go big with twenty 1 TB harddrives, it just seems to me that the hands down best way is no RAID setup so when a harddrive fails you minimize loss.
I'm sure somebody out there can clear this up for me.
My friend wants to set up an htpc for blu ray rips. It seems that every guide recommends a RAID setup, which from my basic understanding means that the movie is split up to two or more harddrives. But what is the point of doing this?
Let's say that you have all your movies spread across two harddrives, and one harddrive inevitably fails, then you lose all your movies. Whereas if you put individual full movies on one harddrive with no RAID setup, and one harddrive inevitably fails, you only lose half of your movies.
I understand that RAID allows for faster access times, but isn't a single harddrive fast enough to play a blu-ray movie?
Even if you wanted to go big with twenty 1 TB harddrives, it just seems to me that the hands down best way is no RAID setup so when a harddrive fails you minimize loss.
I'm sure somebody out there can clear this up for me.