Which Linux distro for media server?

[Tengis]

I havent bought my drives yet but I plan on running a raid setup (raid 5?) to keep my data relatively safe. I will later plan on going to a ZFS setup when I can get ahold of some hardware that supports ecc ram.

Any advice on an easy-ish to use Linux distro that would work well for this? Im probably going to access the data mostly as a mapped network drive from Windows PC. Only Linux distro Ive used recently would be Linux Mint which I was considering using on this machine.

 

[The Lurker]

FreeNas

 

[dandragonrage]

OpenSuSE... and definitely stick with the Linux idea, not FreeBSD or Solaris. All I can say is I wish I had dumped OmniOS for Linux a lot sooner than I did.