On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Herbert Graf wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 10:33 -0700, Marcel Birthelmer wrote: >> Also, don't forget the demands on hard drive etc. >> - Marcel > > The demands on the hard drive are negligible. Even a full BluRay stream > only runs about 30-40Mbps, that's around 5MBps, even a 10 year old hard > drive can manage that. I just bought myself a new drive for my laptop > and it can read at 127MBps. > > TTYL > Have you actually measured that speed? drive manufacturers like to quote the interface speed, where the limiter for media streaming is the speed of bits off the platter. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@midwesttelecine.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist