June 5, 201313 yr My new home server will be primarily to host our media 1200+ DVD iso 300+ Blu-ray iso Thousands of songs Home Pictures (all the media is physically owned by me and in storage) The DVD iso's range from 4-8 GB The Bluray iso's can be up to 30 GB Is 2 GB of ram and no Cache drive sufficient to transfer from my encoding machine to the Tower? Thank you
June 5, 201313 yr My new home server will be primarily to host our media 1200+ DVD iso 300+ Blu-ray iso Thousands of songs Home Pictures (all the media is physically owned by me and in storage) The DVD iso's range from 4-8 GB The Bluray iso's can be up to 30 GB Is 2 GB of ram and no Cache drive sufficient to transfer from my encoding machine to the Tower? Thank you I've been running my older unRAID server on 512 Meg of RAM for the past 8 Years. Most of my movies are 4 to 5 GB ISO Images with the newer Blu-Ray images much larger. I've never run a cache drive except to perform tests. (I really don't care how fast I write to the array. It is fast enough for me. The "cache" drive concept was originally conceived and added by lime-tech when write speeds were about 8 or 10 MB/s. unRAID and the linux kernel have improved greatly since then making the cache drive largely not needed.) The basic file-serving capability of unRAID does not take much memory. 2GB of RAM is more than enough.
June 5, 201313 yr Author Thanks Joe. And thanks for all the Quick responses these last couple of days
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