[tor]

Turkey, on 05 February 2011 - 04:10 AM, said:

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Also note that if you are doing "large files only" type stuff do the largest allocation you can when building the volume. 8KB blocks require many more IO's than 64KB blocks. If you are only ever writing 800MB files I would expect that 64KB is the way to go.

Note that this is more a SQL thing as SQL thinks in 64KB blocks and so I could be wrong with the technical minutiae of file copy etc.

Oh and for anyone still using windows pre 2008 please align your partitions, 30% performance boost for free. If you have a legacy machine and the volumes were built in the GUI assign a new temporary disk and rebuild the partition aligned. I didn't realise people didn't know this until last week so it is a bit of a hot button issue for me at the moment.

[Max Carnage]

Turkey, on 05 February 2011 - 04:10 AM, said:

But like tor has alluded to, performance is only going to be as good as the weakest link. Either the network (must be at least gigabit) or your local hard drive that you are copying from are likely to be the bottleneck.

Ahhh... You've hit the nail right between the eyes. It's a wireless n+ network, but the ADSL router/switch/wifi is only 100 megabit. Looks like another upgrade is required if I want >12MB/s transfer rate.

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If you're copying from DVD (you mentioned digitising DVD's) to the NAS then the hard drives in the RAID array are going to be dying of boredom while you copy!

Well it can serve content to xbmc to keep itself entertained, maybe run a mysql database as well!


For anybody who likes the look of that and doesn't hate apple, the newest AppleTV only costs $129 and - with a simple jailbreak - runs xbmc pretty well. The advantage of xbmc over other media players is that it fetches box art & ratings & banners & descriptions from various internet locations. It's improving by the day too, which is good because music and pictures aren't working properly on iOS yet.

[tor]

Max Carnage, on 06 February 2011 - 10:58 PM, said:

Ahhh... You've hit the nail right between the eyes. It's a wireless n+ network, but the ADSL router/switch/wifi is only 100 megabit. Looks like another upgrade is required if I want >12MB/s transfer rate.

I saw one of them and laughed my arse off. What is the point of 100Mb on a wireless router which can do more than that? I grabbed a netgear that has Gb.

Max Carnage, on 06 February 2011 - 10:58 PM, said:

Well it can serve content to xbmc to keep itself entertained, maybe run a mysql database as well!


For anybody who likes the look of that and doesn't hate apple, the newest AppleTV only costs $129 and - with a simple jailbreak - runs xbmc pretty well. It's improving by the day too. The advantage of xbmc over other media players is that it fetches box art & ratings & banners & descriptions from various internet locations.

Is that a device and does it come with a remote?

I have been using my PS3 which is great except when I need to transcode a movie file then the fast forward fails which is a limitation of PS3Mediaplayer apparently. Haven't had time to solve it.

Oh and the PS3MediaPlayer has an awful MP3 playing capabilities. No shuffle, no "play this directory and all below it". Annoys me.

[Max Carnage]

tor, on 06 February 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

Is that a device and does it come with a remote?

Yep:

http://store.apple.c...mco=MTM3NTM1Nzk
It's just the little box & remote, the tv doesn't come with it! I use an iPad app instead of the IR remote so I can put the AppleTV in the cupboard.
http://itunes.apple....d401852518?mt=8

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I have been using my PS3 which is great except when I need to transcode a movie file then the fast forward fails which is a limitation of PS3Mediaplayer apparently. Haven't had time to solve it.

Well xbmc on AppleTV is still less than perfect, but the software has only existed for 2 weeks and progress in that time has been awesome. It started out very sluggish and with regular crashes, now it's reasonably fluid (not as fast loading thumbnails as that video though) and stable. Plus you can tinker with it (xml) if it doesn't work the way you want.

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Oh and the PS3MediaPlayer has an awful MP3 playing capabilities. No shuffle, no "play this directory and all below it". Annoys me.

Not sure you can do this inside xbmc, but the standard AppleTV software can for sure.

Jailbreaking the AppleTV using OSX:
http://www.iclarifie....php?enid=13581

Installing xbmc:

$ ssh root@<your ATV2 IP address>

root@<your ATV2 IP address>'s password: ''enter your password here, it should be "alpine" if you haven't changed it''

$ apt-get install wget

$ wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add -

$ echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

$ echo "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list

$ apt-get update

$ apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2

http://wiki.xbmc.org...ll_XBMC_on_ATV2

xbmc discussion:
http://forum.xbmc.or...splay.php?f=137

[Mr Medved]

Upgrade time Tor?

http://www.tweaktown..._nom/index.html

I think I'll settle for the 859 Pro with 2GB disks when I finally get some storage. It seems to be the sweet spot for dollar/storage... however the 1079 Pro with 3GB disks...

[tor]

Mr Medved, on 16 September 2011 - 11:43 AM, said:

Upgrade time Tor?

http://www.tweaktown..._nom/index.html

I think I'll settle for the 859 Pro with 2GB disks when I finally get some storage. It seems to be the sweet spot for dollar/storage... however the 1079 Pro with 3GB disks...

Must say the 859 has been a bloody good system. I have 2 of them (one for each company I am responsible for storage for). Stepping up to the new one? probably not just yet

10Gbe sounds good though...