Is 5400rpm good enough for a home theater?
5400RPM Greens will be OK if you are running independant drives (not RAID).
I would not recommend Greens though if you going to build a RAID array. They seem to work OK these days, but have a bad reputation from days gone past (because greens are designed to power down on idle and RAID arrays don't cope so well with that). Its why you now see "NAS Drives" like the WD Red to address this.
The time that 5400 Drives will become a problem is when you start getting 3+ users streaming HD from the same spindle. Ie; if you have PLEX for example streaming to multiple TV's and Tablets, etc. ( but if your HTPC is connected to just one TV then that's probably not a concern).
BTW: HTPC's are so "last century". These days (for high volume media) the better approach is a build a NAS as a central Media server, and just use a ChromeCast or Shield or Roku3 or XBox or PS4 or something similiar to display on TV - ie: any $50-$100 playback device at each TV. This approach also moves any PC noise out of the lounge room (you can put a NAS anywhere on the network).
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