HTPC hardware

[brad]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:18, Jason Clinton wrote:

> So long as you're putting this thing together, you might also check out
> motherboards that have SATA support. All of the SATA MB's that I've seen
> have RAID 0+1 and SATA gives an additional transfer rate boost. Also,
> there are some 10k RPM drives out there that only support SATA. 5.x ms
> seek times totally kick ass. :)
> 
> 
I saw that on some of the MB specs...serial ATA or something?  So its
faster than a normal RAID controller?  I would love to go with 10K rpm
drives, but looking at the budget.....hmmmm.  Was thinking about 4 7500K
40 Gig drives to give me decent space (although MythTV and webcam feeds
will eat it up fast) and spread the writes out more.  I will look at
SATA though.

Thanks,

Brad