Thats a fairly expensive hard drive you went for
For a HTPC, I would have gone for quantity over speed but then thats me...
EDIT: Doh, just seen you got Tb worth of storage drives

Vista was quite nice for HTPC when I tried the beta. I did like you could burn an .avi back to DVD from windows with no extra software. Whereas I downloaded some program via Synaptic on Ubuntu to do it (DeVeDe). Never did find another program on Windows that would do so.

E6700 should serve you well

I solved my HTPC trouble. I sold it.
I now use this.


Modded with an excuter 2.6 chip, 80Gb HD and running Xbox Media Center I may add ;)