What rate of video are you planning on storing? Bandwidth on DVD and SD digital tv is roughly 6Mb while HD is up to 19Mb. (Not going into CBR vs VBR.)
Your controller will certainly handle multiple feeds, especially on a Gb lan. I think Jim's NAS would be fine too though. His limiting factor is the network more than the drives. On 3/10/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Controller I'm using is a 64-bit PCI LSI Raid Card. Bi-directional 320Mb > transfer. > > It should be super fast. Ideally it will be able to serve up multiple things > at the same time. > > The end result is to have multiple Media Cetners reading and writing to this > thing. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:35 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: Mac Mini beats Media Center PC's. > > > > > -----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:5:199578 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
