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<blockquote data-quote="player-x" data-source="post: 197326" data-attributes="member: 11376"><p>Speed is nice but for shore not a requirement for a A/V server 40mbit=5MB/sec(*) is really the max you ever have to stream even the first IDE drive that came out can still do that </p><p></p><p>A Areca 1160 (16x sata) whit 14 disks can still do 200MB/sec and yeah the IOP 341 <a href="http://tweakers.net/reviews/639/6/areca-arc-1280-preview-en-mini-sata-raid-vergelijking-pagina-6.htmlhttp://" target="_blank">scales </a>mouths better 14 disk do around 750GB/sec</p><p>But whats the point unless you build it in your gaming rig whit so many disks and ware it would still give you only marginal extra overall performance </p><p>And in a server you still connect it true Gbit lan met a max true put of 100MB/sec</p><p></p><p>My system specs for example:</p><p> 250.-- ASUS <a href="http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=9&l2=39&l3=263&l4=0&model=1023&modelmenu=1" target="_blank">K8N-LR</a> motherboard</p><p> 200.-- Kingston 4X <a href="http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR400X72C3A_1G.pdf" target="_blank">1GB ECC</a> ddr</p><p> 830.-- Areca <a href="http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm" target="_blank">ARC-1160ML</a> controller </p><p>1500,-- 9X Seagate <a href="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_10.pdf" target="_blank">7200.10</a> 750GB hard drives and growing.</p><p> 140,-- SilverStone <a href="http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=op750&area=" target="_blank">OP750</a> PSU</p><p>2920.-- total + a case, </p><p></p><p>but i started whit only 3 HD's and prices got 2 more when i sold my old IDE raid5 card whit 12 160GB disks and the last 4 i got one by one when i needed them when HD prises drop some more i go over to raid6</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Red">But one thing i learned over 20 years whit computers </span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Red">!!!! BUY WHAT YOU NEED, NOT WHAT YOU WAND !!!!</span></span></strong><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="font-size: 9px">(Ore at least think twice if you really need it "that fast ore that big")</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="player-x, post: 197326, member: 11376"] Speed is nice but for shore not a requirement for a A/V server 40mbit=5MB/sec(*) is really the max you ever have to stream even the first IDE drive that came out can still do that A Areca 1160 (16x sata) whit 14 disks can still do 200MB/sec and yeah the IOP 341 [URL="http://tweakers.net/reviews/639/6/areca-arc-1280-preview-en-mini-sata-raid-vergelijking-pagina-6.htmlhttp://"]scales [/URL]mouths better 14 disk do around 750GB/sec But whats the point unless you build it in your gaming rig whit so many disks and ware it would still give you only marginal extra overall performance And in a server you still connect it true Gbit lan met a max true put of 100MB/sec My system specs for example: 250.-- ASUS [URL="http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=9&l2=39&l3=263&l4=0&model=1023&modelmenu=1"]K8N-LR[/URL] motherboard 200.-- Kingston 4X [URL="http://www.valueram.com/datasheets/KVR400X72C3A_1G.pdf"]1GB ECC[/URL] ddr 830.-- Areca [URL="http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm"]ARC-1160ML[/URL] controller 1500,-- 9X Seagate [URL="http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_10.pdf"]7200.10[/URL] 750GB hard drives and growing. 140,-- SilverStone [URL="http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=op750&area="]OP750[/URL] PSU 2920.-- total + a case, but i started whit only 3 HD's and prices got 2 more when i sold my old IDE raid5 card whit 12 160GB disks and the last 4 i got one by one when i needed them when HD prises drop some more i go over to raid6 [B][SIZE="2"][COLOR="Red"]But one thing i learned over 20 years whit computers !!!! BUY WHAT YOU NEED, NOT WHAT YOU WAND !!!![/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR="Red"][/color][/B][COLOR="Red"] [SIZE="1"](Ore at least think twice if you really need it "that fast ore that big")[/SIZE][/COLOR][SIZE="1"][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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