Posts by Dark_Slayer

Greetings all. I'm in a holding pattern of sorts As I've mentioned in various scattered threads, I only have two primary display (living room / bedroom). The bedroom htpc is running openelec on an i3. I ended up with that as an impulse...

Quote:Originally Posted by bryansj The official answer is that the entire system is using 44 GB. ESXi was counting the provisioned space. Thanks for the info, vmware does that in player too for all vdi's

It's quite hilarious that so many people *know* so much about HDDs, but none can ever seem to explain the differences in throughput with any real granularity other than "higher-density platters are faster" I think of that as a simple...

Quote:Originally Posted by Dark_Slayer Write speeds are almost universally slower than read speedsThis part was wrong. Literally the opposite. I've gone through life to this point thinking it was the other way Quote:Originally...

Quote:Originally Posted by jim2100 Not a good assumption in my experience. The parity drive will have capacity equal to or larger than the largest data drive, and that generally means it will be as fast or faster than the largest...

Built almost that exact system for OpenELEC, but used a single 2GB stick of crucial ram (one of their RAM lines w/o heat spreaders) OpenELEC will run snappily on that system if you boot from a 4GB or greater flash drive, and won't need...

Quote:Originally Posted by jim2100 Right. A rough approximation is that the time to generate the parity from scratch is a little longer than the time required to read all the data on your drive that takes longest to read all the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Elpee 66 x 5 = 330 hours ~ 14 days That's really crazy and so stupid. Sorry, but it is. Yeah, the developers post quoted above better explains throughput, and there is a similar discussion in the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Conquerz But which one would be more useful in the long run? Better performance or better size? I need both. I have a 3TB Barracuda 7200.14 drive already for running gamesMore useful in the long run would...

Quote:Originally Posted by donysious Lastly, Can I install a plex media server on the unraid serverhttp://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_Plugins