On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:19 -0500, 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. Measured using dstat on linux (the command line was something like cp /tmp/really_big_file /dev/null). I knew it would be faster then the old drive (which benches at about 60MBps) but this one completely blew me away! Even my fastest desk top drive doesn't beat it by much, just gave my desk top drive a go: -dsk/total- read writ 0 0 112M 760k 157M 0 148M 256k 165M 0 152M 0 153M 0 144M 0 150M 1200k I haven't been keeping track with how fast drives have become! TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist