> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:22 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Mac Mini beats Media Center PC's. > > I've got three 146 u320 SCSI drives sitting at the house waiting to go > into > a file server, for the purpose of media storage. I'm going to make a RAID > 5 > so I should get about 280GB of usable storage. The idea is to be able to > record shows and download movies and mp3 and share them across the > network.
That's what the ReadyNAS box does (but with SATA drives). RAID 0,1,10 or 5 in a little web-configurable shoebox. I've got four 400 Gig drives in there in RAID 5 - 1.2 Terabytes of crap I've no time to actually watch/listen to! I still giggle like a retarded school girl every time I stop and think about it. ;^) I'm sure SCSI will be much faster (also having a full PC CPU on hand to do the RAID 5 will help a lot). You may be fast enough in the end to record directly to the RAID array over the network (I think it'll depend on whether you're recording HD or not). For me, at least, the only time I notice the speed is when I'm copying large files to the box for storage (a full season of "Scrubs" just took about 10 minutes to move over). I never get any speed-related problems streaming from the box (even when streaming 1080i 5.1 audio signals). The box supports Gigabit LAN but I've only got a 100 Mb router. It also supports Wireless use but I think that would be severely painful. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199573 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
