Julian,
What do you mean by compression in this context? I'm just talking about
reading straight files stored in a folder over the network. I think I
need at least 10MB/s to stream full blu-ray (using demanding ones like
Avatar or the Dark Knight). I can almost do it over my powerline
network but it a tad under that (8.9 MB/s) (tested this - this level
streams some BDs perfectly (watched 127 hours this way), but not the
Dark Knight). I'm expecting my gigabit network to come in around
400Mbps or 50MB/s (based on testing computer-to-computer upstairs),
which should be enough to stream 5 BDs at once. We'll see.
I don't have a budget yet, but I don't plan to buy this all at once, either.
I have a second computer...a Q9550, 8 GB RAM, Gigabit p35 mobo...(my old
box before the sandy bridge upgrade). The case might not be up to this,
though, so I might swap that...PSU too, possibily.
thanks for the links...I'll look them over in a minute...
On 7/27/2011 8:33 AM, Julian Zottl wrote:
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?
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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?
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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.
