Ah, I figured you were compressing them at least a little. At 1080p and 7.1, I was seeing pretty high network utilization on my gigabit (wired) network. I only checked it out once though, so it could well vary greatly between movies and I just happened to catch a big one. ---- Julian
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/MegaRAIDSAS9240-8i.aspx> >> http://www.lsi.com/products/**storagecomponents/Pages/** >> MegaRAIDSAS9260-16i.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.adaptec.com/en-us/products/controllers/hardware/sas/performance/sas-5805/> >> http://www.areca.us/products/**pcietosas1680series.htm<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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
