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<blockquote data-quote="funkstar" data-source="post: 574362" data-attributes="member: 14311">A single hard drive will easily handle HD streams. A current hard drive will put out in the region of 50-60MegaBytes/sec, as that quote says, BluRay movies can peak at 54MegaBits/sec or about 9MegaBytes/sec.That quote gets confusing because it goes on to say about 8x readers. This is just like CD and DVD drives, you can get Nx readers, but their original use as music or video media does not need more than 1x speed (BluRay would be different and require 2x read speeds for movies though wouldn't it?).So, you won't need a RAID card for speed, but you might for capacity. However, I would be inclinded to just use the built in Windows software instead. Set your drives up as dynamic disks, and you can span one drive letter over multiple physical drives. This will not give you data redundancy, so if you drive dies, you may loose all your data, but it does mean you can have multiple terabytes of data all appear as a single drive to MediaPortal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="funkstar, post: 574362, member: 14311"] A single hard drive will easily handle HD streams. A current hard drive will put out in the region of 50-60Mega[B]Bytes[/B]/sec, as that quote says, BluRay movies can peak at 54Mega[B]Bits[/B]/sec or about 9Mega[B]Bytes[/B]/sec. That quote gets confusing because it goes on to say about 8x readers. This is just like CD and DVD drives, you can get Nx readers, but their original use as music or video media does not need more than 1x speed (BluRay would be different and require 2x read speeds for movies though wouldn't it?). So, you won't need a RAID card for speed, but you might for capacity. However, I would be inclinded to just use the built in Windows software instead. Set your drives up as dynamic disks, and you can span one drive letter over multiple physical drives. This will not give you data redundancy, so if you drive dies, you may loose all your data, but it does mean you can have multiple terabytes of data all appear as a single drive to MediaPortal. [/QUOTE]

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