[Magnumosity]

So essentially I am trying to set up a home network with an HTPC. I have another pc connected to my TV which is also connected to my router.
This build is designed to be a media server while using FreeNAS or unraid. I am not 100% sure on how to use either of those pieces of software just yet, I have been researching and learning and i think I am leaning more towards FreeNAS for now. I want to start out a little smaller, about 4tb of hard drive space but eventually add more drives to the server. I modeled the build from an XBMC thread I saw a while ago, but the original build was using a Sempron CPU. Now my question is how much more performance would I get from using a dual core CPU and 2gb of ram.

Build in Question: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/Public...r=17324505

I dont think I am going to be using WD Green drives, too many people have said those drives arent good for RAID.

Any comments or suggestions?

[eskro]

as explained by PoofyHairGuy in his guide,
WD GREEN drives are good for unRAID but not for RAID or ZFS...

Using FreeNAS or unRAID is up to you,,,

i created a unRAID GUide u might wanna look at...

[thethirdnut]

Neither are RAID-based so WD Greens would work fine although I'd suggest disabling the head-parking on them if you can.

FreeNAS uses ZFS which is superior to unRAID's filesystem, but not as flexible.