I know both will do the job just fine so at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, but that's why I am asking you guys. There might be something I'm not thinking of that would influence my decision.
FWIW - I will be putting 6 2TB drives into my PowerEdge 2950 and using raid 5 to create a large volume to store my movies, music, documents, etc...
The only reason right now that I am leaning towards windows in because I can then use Hyper-V to play around with other OS's on the server.
The only reason I am considering linux is that I expect it would jive better with my Raspberry pi that I have in place connected to my TV to play the movies from the server. It was a real bitch to figure out how to get the pi connected to the server and have everything work right.
Lets try and keep the fanboy stuff out of this too. :) :P
FWIW - I will be putting 6 2TB drives into my PowerEdge 2950 and using raid 5 to create a large volume to store my movies, music, documents, etc...
The only reason right now that I am leaning towards windows in because I can then use Hyper-V to play around with other OS's on the server.
The only reason I am considering linux is that I expect it would jive better with my Raspberry pi that I have in place connected to my TV to play the movies from the server. It was a real bitch to figure out how to get the pi connected to the server and have everything work right.
Lets try and keep the fanboy stuff out of this too. :) :P