On Thursday 05 February 2009, 05:17:19, neville bradbury wrote: > 1. best speed of disks 7200 rpm.
Better 15k SAS/scsi, to serve a lot of stream the seek time is really an important feature. Load it with RAM too, which is cheap nowadays and serve as "seek buffer" very well (on linux systems). > 2. how many disk and type of confirue raid 1 I would use raid 5 for a vod if you have a lot of content, it is cheaper at $/GB. > I am looking to service around 200 amino set top box request with a > possible 100 vod movies downloaded at any one time. 100 movies at which rate? I use live555 on Debian/Linux and I assure it can serve that load with above mentioned configuration with 4.5 Mbps mpeg2 streams without problems. I cannot spell "windows" and "server" in the same sentence, I'm sorry :-) -- ESC:wq -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ live-devel mailing list live-devel@lists.live555.com http://lists.live555.com/mailman/listinfo/live-devel
