OK, so kinda similar to some questions on the board already, but I wanted to get a feel for what the overall solution would look like. Let's say you have a server holding a couple of teras of DVD-quality video in gig chunks or more, and you want to be able to serve up potentially two videos to various PCs on the LAN.
Server: 4 Gb RAM, several 750 Gb Seagates in Raid 0, gigabit ethernet port, FreeNAS.
Switch: D-Link 16 or 24 port gigabit switch
PC: MythTV or MCE, gigabit ethernet
LAN: large frames switched on
If you have two PCs trying to get video from the server at the same time, would the LAN be saturated? Would the server be fast enough or have enough RAM to cope? Would there be any "dropouts" in the video?
Bonus question: Is there a way of connecting two ethernet ports of the server and two of the PC to double the bandwidth?
Am I just being silly?
Server: 4 Gb RAM, several 750 Gb Seagates in Raid 0, gigabit ethernet port, FreeNAS.
Switch: D-Link 16 or 24 port gigabit switch
PC: MythTV or MCE, gigabit ethernet
LAN: large frames switched on
If you have two PCs trying to get video from the server at the same time, would the LAN be saturated? Would the server be fast enough or have enough RAM to cope? Would there be any "dropouts" in the video?
Bonus question: Is there a way of connecting two ethernet ports of the server and two of the PC to double the bandwidth?
Am I just being silly?