2009-09-04, 17:42
Also check your local EB Games stores, they are owned by GameStop I believe.
Quote:(*) Those networks work nicely over your power line, but they're not secure and they are reachable from the whole building they're attached to. Just in case you think security could be a matter...
Quote:10. This can be done on a budget, however i think $2k could be a little low. At a guess you are probably looking at about $1200ish for the server at least.
Phuqz Wrote:Also a USB drive is not designed as a multi-user device and consequently doesn't handle multiple concurrent IO requests (even if they're just reads) very well. Connecting a USB drive to a server does not give you a streaming media server, all it gives you is a server with a USB drive attached to it.I am going to have to disagree with a portion of that... I use a WD My book Ultimate II 1tb for all movies (tv are stored on teh raid array).. Granted the My Book Ultimate II is a RAID0 enclosure and i have it connected via firewire 400, but even when connected via usb, i can stream 3 clients without a problem.. USB can handle multiple concurrent IO requests very wells (especially SSDs).. limitations are the drives themselves...
prae5 Wrote:6. RAID is not optional, you need it not for the redundancy but for reliably handling multiple concurrent video streams.Good points.. redundancy is not the primary, but it is an important reason to go for a raid 5 array and loose (1/n)th totall storage space where n represents the number of drives... for that 1/4, 1/5 or 1/6th of space you gain, you have the possibility of loosing all data on a RAID0... yes 6 is better then 4, and 7 is better then 6.. just saying the minimum you would need is around 4 drives... It could work fine in a 4 drive raid5 but if you have the money to get a decent raid card and decent drives then go for a 6 drive raid5 config...
7. Given point 6, rather than using 4x 1tb drives in RAID5 to give you 3tb of useable space, use 7 500gb drives in RAID5 (more spindles the better the performance).
9. I wouldn't personally recommend powerline either, especially when you start to add lots of devices. However that being said it is a better option than wifi, and might work for a few devices.
turbodonkey Wrote:Remember there is a concurrent connection limit of TCP/IP for Vista/XP, I think it's around the 10 concurrent connection mark. So either go with a server based OS, or open source... or of course there is the TCP/IP connection limit hack...