The OS is obviously going to be installed on the Velociraptors for overall system performance. The boot sequence is hardly the end of OS hard drive access; quite the opposite. System files and applets are constantly being loaded. The larger 1TB drives would be ideal for media storage for all of your XviD, x264 and FLAC files, where blazing access times are not required. Granted, either set of drives striped in RAID are going to be fast, but it's a waste to have the remaining 4 1TB's in RAID 5, IMHO.
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The OS is obviously going to be installed on the Velociraptors for overall system performance. The boot sequence is hardly the end of OS hard drive access; quite the opposite. System files and applets are constantly being loaded. The larger 1TB drives would be ideal for media storage for all of your XviD, x264 and FLAC files, where blazing access times are not required. Granted, either set of drives striped in RAID are going to be fast, but it's a waste to have the remaining 4 1TB's in RAID 5, IMHO.