The biggest limitation will definitely be speed of the disks and the bandwidth on your network. I found that gigabit ethernet can handle a couple of bluray streams pretty well, depending on the type of compression that you are using.
The other thing I forgot to ask was budget.. that determines a lot. Here are a couple of controllers to take a look at: http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9240-8i.aspx http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9260-16i.aspx http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/controllers/hardware/sas/performance/sas-5805/ http://www.areca.us/products/pcietosas1680series.htm Are you planning on building this out as it's own box? ie. do you need a case and a mb/cpu/ram? ---- Julian On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > Windows. Don't need redundancy on the blu-ray folders, I own all the > content so if a crash occurs I'll just rebuild (I'd like to rebuild just the > crashed out part). I'm going to media browser on top of WMC to get to the > files. I'd like to be able to stream as much as my home network will > allow...is disk space/speed a limitation there? I could see myself > streaming to two locations at most, presently. > > > On 7/27/2011 6:18 AM, Julian Zottl wrote: > >> How big do you want the RAID to get (# of drives that is)? I presume >> enough performance to stream one bluray... or will you be doing multiple? >> Windows/Linux? Redundancy? >> ---- >> Julian >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>** >> wrote: >> >> What is the best way to add lots of drives to a computer, with the goal >>> being to create a huge space for ripped blu-rays? >>> >>> I don't think my mobo has sata connectors for more than 4-6. I assume I >>> need a PCI-E card of some sort. What's best? I don't intend to build it >>> out >>> at once...just over time. >>> >>>
