January 12, 200818 yr Hi, Currently I have the following: Mainboard: MSI 694T Pro CPU: P3 1GHz I/O Controller: Promise SATA300 TX4 PCI HardDrives: 3x Western Digital 1TB harddrive Network Card: D-Link 1Gb Network card PCI Memory: 1GB PC100 SDRAM Software: unRaid with RAID 5 As you can see, I have 2 bandwidth intensive components running off of the PCI bus, namely SATA and Network card. I plan to stream backed-up HD /Blu Ray DVD directly off a server with this configuration while running some bit torrent application. Will a computer with such specifications be sufficient for such application?
January 12, 200818 yr I haven't tried BD/HD-DVD backups (rips of discs that you own, as opposed to .mkv, which I have tried) but I'm thinking you're light on processor. Tom suggests 2.0ghz, although a 'modern' 1.6ghz 'should be fine, but no lower' according to him - specifically the Celeron Conroe 420 1.6ghz. The other issue is that, afaik, you can't run BT or any other apps on the box other than unRAID, which is it's own (mostly closed) OS. I might be wrong, but I don't think you'll be able to use the box for both at the same time.
January 12, 200818 yr The other issue is that, afaik, you can't run BT or any other apps on the box other than unRAID, which is it's own (mostly closed) OS. I might be wrong, but I don't think you'll be able to use the box for both at the same time. unRaid is built on top of Slackware 2.6 and is actually mostly open. You are correct in that the full development environment is not installed, but it can be and several have done just that. The only "closed" part of unRaid is the web-based management utility. You can install and run just about any apps you desire as long as they don't use swap space... and you can configure swap space if they do, either on a spare drive not in the array, or in a swap-file located in the unRaid array. (By configuring a swap file you are not limited to the 1 Gig of ram to hold all the running processes on the server in addition to the OS) Doing a google search on "slackware bittorrent client" resulted in this mention of a console based bittorrent client that might suit your needs, there might be others as well: http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/2007/12/console-based-bittorrent-client.html Now, I have never tried the bittorrent mentioned at the above link, looked at it, or downloaded it, but the odds are somewhere there is a bittorrent client you could use on the unRaid box if you wanted to do some digging. Joe L.
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