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<blockquote data-quote="milanp" data-source="post: 245284" data-attributes="member: 10284">You can find the my comments below your answers.1. Will a gigabit network handle 7 simultaneous streams of multiple sorts? ie; 4 x HDTV and 3 x DVD all at once.It should , I don't have HD in my country but if you search with qoogle you can see that HD streams start from 14-15MB/sec up to 35-40 MB/sec. 2. Will the server handle the 7 streams simultaneously CPU, RAM and HDD wise. Even if I use seperate HDDs for each clients TV recording etc.This is where I have problems. The same system you have Pentium D with 2GB is using too much resources for 6 SD streams. Is 2.5TB a raid storage ???3. Would it be a better option to run 2 servers instead and split the tuners down the middle and share the load between them.When master/slave servers feature is implemented,this should be the solution. Otherwise you will not be able to access the recordings from one server to another. You can always map the drives, but that is not a good solution.4. If I run a dedicated analogue TV tuner alongside the digitals on the server for a single foxtel input, will this one additional channel live happily alongside the other DVB channels on the clients? ie: Be able to change channels seemlessly from one HDTV channel to the anologue channel for foxtel...That is what I have done with DVB-S and SDTV.It works seamlessly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="milanp, post: 245284, member: 10284"] You can find the my comments below your answers. 1. Will a gigabit network handle 7 simultaneous streams of multiple sorts? ie; 4 x HDTV and 3 x DVD all at once. It should , I don't have HD in my country but if you search with qoogle you can see that HD streams start from 14-15MB/sec up to 35-40 MB/sec. 2. Will the server handle the 7 streams simultaneously CPU, RAM and HDD wise. Even if I use seperate HDDs for each clients TV recording etc. This is where I have problems. The same system you have Pentium D with 2GB is using too much resources for 6 SD streams. Is 2.5TB a raid storage ??? 3. Would it be a better option to run 2 servers instead and split the tuners down the middle and share the load between them. When master/slave servers feature is implemented,this should be the solution. Otherwise you will not be able to access the recordings from one server to another. You can always map the drives, but that is not a good solution. 4. If I run a dedicated analogue TV tuner alongside the digitals on the server for a single foxtel input, will this one additional channel live happily alongside the other DVB channels on the clients? ie: Be able to change channels seemlessly from one HDTV channel to the anologue channel for foxtel... That is what I have done with DVB-S and SDTV.It works seamlessly. [/QUOTE]

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