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In response to "that is what I keep thinking, but I just wonder if the upgrade in price is worth it really for a media server. -- nm" by tRuMaN

Wouldn't you want a high rpm for streaming media? The cache is what might be over kill. IDK? -- nm

Posted by lileve (aka lileve) May 31 '11, 12:53

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Even on gigabit networking, you will *never* saturate the bandwidth of the hard drive's top speed. - Beryllium May 31, 12:54 2
- Yes. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:56
- yeah, and my network is gigabit mostly. -- nm - tRuMaN May 31, 12:55
i asked that earlier, cause I was reading an article that debated that point. Bery and Kilbo disagreed with each other. -- nm - tRuMaN May 31, 12:53 2
- I lost track of the thread. My point was basically that unless you're streaming to multiple clients or doing multiple read/write operations to - oblique May 31, 12:56
- I don't think their drives ever stop working. That might be part of it. -- nm - lileve May 31, 12:55

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