Help and advice on building a media server

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by nickmate

ok, chances are its only going to be playing one Blu-ray rip at a time, but it should be fine playing multiple DVDs and flac songs.
Ok so i got the jist of the whole Raid options and setup, are there any problems with running the server 24/7 and what is the best power supply to run this long and power all the HDDs?

On problem running the server 24/7 is that your electric bill might go up

one other thing to consider instead of running a traditional RAID is something called flexraid

http://www.flexraid.com/

There are a lot of good power supplies out there but i like Antec and Corsair my self (I have a corsair in my gaming machine and an Antec in my server) How big depends on how many drives you end up going with