RE: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
Magic thanks David. That looks like the answer. I was trying to avoid having yet another device there but they look so neat. I’ve ordered a couple of them. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: http://www.sqldownunder.com/ www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014 6:47 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com mailto:step...@perthprojects.com wrote: I can right click a movie or whatever and select play to for my Xbox One. Not sure if my Samsung TV shows up but I don't have it plugged in, its essentially a dumb terminal for all the other devices. On that note its the only way I can play movies from my local network on my Xbox One. There's no way to browse the local network with my XBox One. Its majorly crippled. Its easier to play stuff off the Internet than it is from my own network. I tend to use my Gigabyte media center for movies. Rather dissapointing when your newer console is less capable than your older one(s). Progress right? :( Miracast with my Dell Venue 8 is a fail but that's due to my TV not supporting it. Yay for standards... Bleeding edge technology Since finding DIaL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIscovery_And_Launch), DLNA is dead to me. I got a mate in the US to send over a bunch of ChromeCasts and it is the way forward. $35 per first screen and you use 'whatever' phone/tablet/app to tell it to download content. Sure as hell beats the brain dead UX on my Bravia for finding media as the device you send commands from is anything and disconnected from the source and destination of the streaming. It is so frickin simple and widely supported from second screen apps on android/ios. Latest release also supports Plex for local media. YMMV. David.
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:36 AM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: Magic thanks David. That looks like the answer. I was trying to avoid having yet another device there but they look so neat. I’ve ordered a couple of them. Good luck! I find myself actually watching a fair bit of YouTube content on the couch now and just surfing searches from my phone and punting the content to the TV via ChromeCast. One thing that did occur to me is that YouTube does a really crappy job of content curation. It is hard to go from something you watched that you liked to something else similar ranked by quality (and there is a lot of complete crap on The YouTube). There would be good money in a startup that does something a lot smarter than The Google (big ask) around curated YouTube content. David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
*stares at Chromecast* *stares at Roku 3* You have my attention David ... please expand more... :D --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:45 AM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:36 AM, GregAtGregLowDotCom g...@greglow.comwrote: Magic thanks David. That looks like the answer. I was trying to avoid having yet another device there but they look so neat. I've ordered a couple of them. Good luck! I find myself actually watching a fair bit of YouTube content on the couch now and just surfing searches from my phone and punting the content to the TV via ChromeCast. One thing that did occur to me is that YouTube does a really crappy job of content curation. It is hard to go from something you watched that you liked to something else similar ranked by quality (and there is a lot of complete crap on The YouTube). There would be good money in a startup that does something a lot smarter than The Google (big ask) around curated YouTube content. David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
RE: [OT] Raid 0
RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1
RE: [OT] Raid 0
I had something similar in my Sony Z1, but with SATA3 pretty common these days, I'm not sure the average single-user machine would see much benefit from 2 x SATA3 drives in RAID0 vs just single a single SSD. How much data do you load (or save)? Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Preet Sangha Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:10 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Raid 0 I have two super fast SSDs running in Raid 0 on my laptop. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.commailto:anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1
RE: [OT] Raid 0
For a dev machine I think it's overkill. Using one of our main applications at work as the test case to justify a move to SSDs, times for running the unit tests (times averaged over 5 runs of each) were: (mins:seconds) 1x magnetic drive with everything on one drive: 3:42 1x SSD with everything on one drive: 0:54 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc): 0:52 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc) with temp folders, paging file etc on SSD: 0:44 2x SSD (one for OS, one for documents/project files/etc): 0:33 2x SSD (RAID 0) with everything on one drive: 0:31 RAID 0 has its place when disk access is a major bottleneck (eg video production, music studio workstations, high volume database server etc) but for a software development it's pretty wasteful when you get near-enough indistinguishable performance by having the two drives running separately, plus double the storage space and only risking half as much data if one of them fails. PS: those numbers are from last-gen SSDs (read/write around 250/200Mbps) so I would expect the performance of a single current-gen SSD (around 500/400) to be even closer to the two drive configurations making a RAID 0 setup even harder to justify. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.commailto:k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.commailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.commailto:anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland Click herehttps://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ== to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
Re: [OT] Raid 0
No such thing as overkill. ;) You want your bottleneck to be your developer, not your hardware. If your developers are not coming into work and complaining about how slow their home computers are compared to their work machine, then you are not looking after your developers and you don't deserve to have them. Just sayin. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Nathan Chere nathan.ch...@saiglobal.comwrote: For a dev machine I think it's overkill. Using one of our main applications at work as the test case to justify a move to SSDs, times for running the unit tests (times averaged over 5 runs of each) were: (mins:seconds) *1x magnetic drive with everything on one drive*: 3:42 *1x SSD with everything on one drive*: 0:54 *1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc): *0:52 *1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc) with temp folders, paging file etc on SSD: *0:44 *2x SSD (one for OS, one for documents/project files/etc): *0:33 *2x SSD (RAID 0) with everything on one drive: *0:31 RAID 0 has its place when disk access is a major bottleneck (eg video production, music studio workstations, high volume database server etc) but for a software development it's pretty wasteful when you get near-enough indistinguishable performance by having the two drives running separately, plus double the storage space and only risking half as much data if one of them fails. PS: those numbers are from last-gen SSDs (read/write around 250/200Mbps) so I would expect the performance of a single current-gen SSD (around 500/400) to be even closer to the two drive configurations making a RAID 0 setup even harder to justify. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *anthonyatsmall...@mail.com *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ== to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
Re: [OT] Raid 0
I got it about 2.5 years ago. As part of our dev we process SQL Server Analysis Services databases. The process will max your CPU/Memory/Disk IO and ask for more! - On our server it took 25 mins (16Gb, top of the range sandy bridge I7 or top , 4x Sata II SSDs in Raid 0) - On my laptop it took about 15 mins. - On a typical client site with SAN storage it took upwards of 5 hours. Any we've optimised the process considerably since then then and I can process the cube in about 10 mins now. I don't even do it that often now either :-) I certainly agree that sitting around waiting for stuff to happen in a real pain and I would never go back to slow machines for anything. On 29 January 2014 16:21, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I had something similar in my Sony Z1, but with SATA3 pretty common these days, I'm not sure the average single-user machine would see much benefit from 2 x SATA3 drives in RAID0 vs just single a single SSD. How much data do you load (or save)? Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:10 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Raid 0 I have two super fast SSDs running in Raid 0 on my laptop. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *anthonyatsmall...@mail.com *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
Re: [OT] Raid 0
I should add that we have one client uses who uses Raid 10 SSDs and they process their live DB in about 60 mins (down from about 4.5 hours). Their server cost was US 40k I believe. On 29 January 2014 17:09, Preet Sangha preetsan...@gmail.com wrote: I got it about 2.5 years ago. As part of our dev we process SQL Server Analysis Services databases. The process will max your CPU/Memory/Disk IO and ask for more! - On our server it took 25 mins (16Gb, top of the range sandy bridge I7 or top , 4x Sata II SSDs in Raid 0) - On my laptop it took about 15 mins. - On a typical client site with SAN storage it took upwards of 5 hours. Any we've optimised the process considerably since then then and I can process the cube in about 10 mins now. I don't even do it that often now either :-) I certainly agree that sitting around waiting for stuff to happen in a real pain and I would never go back to slow machines for anything. On 29 January 2014 16:21, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: I had something similar in my Sony Z1, but with SATA3 pretty common these days, I'm not sure the average single-user machine would see much benefit from 2 x SATA3 drives in RAID0 vs just single a single SSD. How much data do you load (or save)? Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:10 PM *To:* ozDotNet *Subject:* Re: [OT] Raid 0 I have two super fast SSDs running in Raid 0 on my laptop. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *anthonyatsmall...@mail.com *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM *To:* 'ozDotNet' *Subject:* [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland
RE: [OT] Raid 0
Cool figures From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:40 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Raid 0 For a dev machine I think it's overkill. Using one of our main applications at work as the test case to justify a move to SSDs, times for running the unit tests (times averaged over 5 runs of each) were: (mins:seconds) 1x magnetic drive with everything on one drive: 3:42 1x SSD with everything on one drive: 0:54 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc): 0:52 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc) with temp folders, paging file etc on SSD: 0:44 2x SSD (one for OS, one for documents/project files/etc): 0:33 2x SSD (RAID 0) with everything on one drive: 0:31 RAID 0 has its place when disk access is a major bottleneck (eg video production, music studio workstations, high volume database server etc) but for a software development it's pretty wasteful when you get near-enough indistinguishable performance by having the two drives running separately, plus double the storage space and only risking half as much data if one of them fails. PS: those numbers are from last-gen SSDs (read/write around 250/200Mbps) so I would expect the performance of a single current-gen SSD (around 500/400) to be even closer to the two drive configurations making a RAID 0 setup even harder to justify. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ== to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. http://www.websense.com/ www.websense.com
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
RE: [OT] Raid 0
Thanks Guys..raid SSD seems to be the way From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 3:26 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT] Raid 0 Cool figures From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Chere Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:40 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Raid 0 For a dev machine I think it's overkill. Using one of our main applications at work as the test case to justify a move to SSDs, times for running the unit tests (times averaged over 5 runs of each) were: (mins:seconds) 1x magnetic drive with everything on one drive: 3:42 1x SSD with everything on one drive: 0:54 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc): 0:52 1x magnetic drive (OS), 1x SSD (documents/project files/etc) with temp folders, paging file etc on SSD: 0:44 2x SSD (one for OS, one for documents/project files/etc): 0:33 2x SSD (RAID 0) with everything on one drive: 0:31 RAID 0 has its place when disk access is a major bottleneck (eg video production, music studio workstations, high volume database server etc) but for a software development it's pretty wasteful when you get near-enough indistinguishable performance by having the two drives running separately, plus double the storage space and only risking half as much data if one of them fails. PS: those numbers are from last-gen SSDs (read/write around 250/200Mbps) so I would expect the performance of a single current-gen SSD (around 500/400) to be even closer to the two drive configurations making a RAID 0 setup even harder to justify. On 29 January 2014 15:30, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: RAID0's usually used for speed, when you don't care about protecting the underlying content (e.g. it's ephemeral or you've got it protected somewhere else). I think SSDs have eliminated the need for RAID0 on most single user machines. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of anthonyatsmall...@mail.com Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 1:27 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Raid 0 Anyone using raid 0 for their dev machine? I have a raid card with 4 drives and deciding on whether to use 2 drives in RAID 0 and 2 drives in Raid 1 -- regards, Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland Click here https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ== to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. http://www.websense.com/ www.websense.com
RE: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
Yeah, even found wp8 plex app. Sure it cost me money ($5.90 seems a bit high but hey whatever) but gives me something to spend my Nokia credit on. I wonder if the iphone app is free or paid? -Original Message- From: Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com Sent: 29/01/2014 2:26 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
RE: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
I think I paid for the iPhone and android ones. On Jan 29, 2014 4:57 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Yeah, even found wp8 plex app. Sure it cost me money ($5.90 seems a bit high but hey whatever) but gives me something to spend my Nokia credit on. I wonder if the iphone app is free or paid? -- From: Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com Sent: 29/01/2014 2:26 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1
Yep, looks like you get some of the apps for free if you become premium. If its as awesome as it looks (will give it a work out tonight) then it looks worth supporting. Thanks for the recommendation Scott! Hmm this thread has absolutely nothing to do with .Net hehe Perhaps Plex has some api's that can be hooked into so we can save this thread? On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.comwrote: I think I paid for the iPhone and android ones. On Jan 29, 2014 4:57 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Yeah, even found wp8 plex app. Sure it cost me money ($5.90 seems a bit high but hey whatever) but gives me something to spend my Nokia credit on. I wonder if the iphone app is free or paid? -- From: Joseph Cooney joseph.coo...@gmail.com Sent: 29/01/2014 2:26 PM To: ozDotNet ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: DLNA access from Windows 8.1 Plex has a great ecosystem for mobile devices too. Joseph On Jan 29, 2014 4:10 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Checking out Plex server, it looks great. Oh and as an added bonus i just discovered my NAS has a Plex installer. Synology rocks. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.comwrote: XBMC was good when XBOX first generation were moddable.. today its like most OSS ... it eventually ends up in the boredom graveyard filled with promises and slow releases... Plex Media Server spanks XBMC now.. and it will be my favourite until eventually another rises to beat its dominance...and then i to will favour this.. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:24 PM, David Connors da...@connors.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Scott Barnes scott.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Ah ok, I was hoping for a Chromecast vs Roku 3 showdown but it never came .. so basically the whole Airplay thing in Apple speak is still a generation behind as from memory Airplay will still require your Phone/iPad/ATV to host the streaming but this in turn is just an instruction packet to tell it you do it from here.. Yes, I think later extensions to AirPlay did the latter but originally it was more or less peer to peer (which it had to be pre iCloud etc I guess). The key value I get out of the ChromeCast is it has no UX at all. It just shows random photos while not in use but other than that it does nothing. The relationship it always between your chosen device, your favourite/most appropriate app, and ChromeCast as a dumb arse renderer. In that regard, I guess, there is no lock in as you can use whichever content provider or app you want. I've tried XBMC a few times but found the plugins for things like YouTube second rate - as they're basically rebuilding the UX for their own purposes vs using the native thing from Google with the latest features etc. [ .. ] As always, YMMV and it depends on the content you mostly consume (which on an hours watched basis in our place, is still mainly FoxtelIQ). David.
