Thanks to everyone again.

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August 9, 2011 at 1:05 am #5168
SpacemanSpiff2000

    Thanks to everyone again. This is interesting to watch and learn.

    Further clarifications:

    VD = Virtual Disk? No one else is talking “VD” here (or elsewhere in my reading), so I’m curious how this comes into play.

    Wants: I do know what I want … in the end (see OP). Just trying to figure out how best to get there. The best advice so far here may be to start small but expandable and build from there. This is not my 1st build (it’s my 3rd, but I also have a 20 yr history in IT and I am new to the entertainment media party).

    Off-the-shelf: I am a bit resistant b/c I’ve kinda “been there done that” with a WD WorldBook w/ 2x1TB disks (RAID1) that I filled. Wanted to upgrade to 2x2TB Samsung disks in-hand. WD only allowed it to recognize WD HDDs … until I hacked the Linux down to reading the code myself and found/commented out the 1 line where it detected the WD drives (and told it all HDDs were WD), AND figured out how to keep the mirrored drive from overwriting the hack. That (+ the 1TB copying) only took 3 weeks of my life around Christmas of doing little else. Never again. So, I’m a bit wary, but still will look @ ReadyNAS.

    Performance: I’m not looking for “best” performance but “good enough” performance. P1 files (fault tolerant) are written overnight (don’t care about speed) and are only read if files are lost or for local sharing (don’t care again). P2 is all about serving movies, so I need the performance to serve a ripped Bluray w/ 5.1 sound at full speed with 0 lag and 0 dropped frames … a little more is a buffer … any more than that is overkill.

    Performance Q: So what performance is good enough to serve BRs over the network? Or what will give me that performance?

    If it matters, the network will be at least wireless-N (when I upgrade the router), up to gigabit later (when I figure out how to run cable from the office in my basement, horizontally thru a half-bath and along an external wall to the family room, which is also in my fully-finished basement … worst case scenario there). Thanks once again!