This is a video forum, my assumption is that you want to edit HDV and burn blu ray discs.
If you only want to watch blu ray movies then you don’t need most of this, just a blu ray player 😉
However, if you want to edit HDV then you need the items that we are suggesting.
I don’t necessarily agree with the RAID recommendation, I don’t use RAID on any of my editing drives.
In some cases RAID can be a bad thing for editing depending on what RAID configuration you are using.
My main computer has RAID 0 on the two primary drives (250gb) and only because it came that way.
My other two drives (750gb) are not included in the RAID configuration and I have no problems editing HDV.
