landS Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment
landS Posted June 5, 2013 Author Share Posted June 5, 2013 Thanks Joe. And thanks for all the Quick responses these last couple of days Quote Link to comment
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