Mark Rages wrote: > 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 > I have tested enough drives recently to know that the advertised speeds are in the right ballparks... I am getting close to 100MB/s on a RAID0 array on linux (actually, I get more, and I just tested....): dd if=/dev/zero of=/fast/junk bs=1024k count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.1231 s, 106 MB/s Rolf -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist