Most important component for streaming HD content

[Furton]

Maybe I am missing something but it depends on how you're going to be streaming this content doesn't it?
If you're watching HD allowing the clients to decode the stream then you should get away with a not-so-special server.
If, however, you're using MythTV or something on the server using "Extender"-style clients then won't your server will be doing the decoding and need to be beefier?

My plan is to let the HTPC and client PC's do the decoding as they are beefy enough as it is. However, what is MythTV?

 

[ubern00b]

http://www.mythtv.org/

 

[Bomag]

Furton

I hope you realise that WHS does not like software RAID at all. It has its own system to ensure redundancy by spanning data over a number of disks, I thought I would cheat but it locked up solid whenever I tried to add an array to the WHS allocated storage (tested with both nvidia 590a sata raid and a 975x ICH7R).

If you want a MB with plenty of sata ports try the M2N32 WS pro. It has 9 sata ports and 2 PCI-X; apparent some people have got hardware PCI-X Raid 5 cards to work.