Norman
Prominent Member
I use an Intel SS4000 NAS to store all of my home media on and up until now its been great. Its configuration is 4 x 400GB RAID 5 and connected to a 1Gb switch.
I have 5 PCs in the house and I can stream individual DVDs from the NAS to each PC simultaneously with no problems (Using WinDVD on each PC) but when I try to stream a ripped HDDVD to just one PC it stutters like anything.
Surely if this NAS can stream five ordinary DVDs simultaneously it should have enough data throughput to stream just one HDDVD (assuming 5 x DVDs is about 30Mbs and one HDDVD is about 20Mbs)?
One theory I have is that I am using Cyberlinks PowerDVD to view HDDVD material and I wonder if this program isnt as good at streaming from a NAS as WinDVD? (It does stream standard DVDs ok).
If anyone has any thoughts on this Id appreciate it. Thanks.
BTW, Streaming HDDVD from the local hard disk is fine.
I have 5 PCs in the house and I can stream individual DVDs from the NAS to each PC simultaneously with no problems (Using WinDVD on each PC) but when I try to stream a ripped HDDVD to just one PC it stutters like anything.
Surely if this NAS can stream five ordinary DVDs simultaneously it should have enough data throughput to stream just one HDDVD (assuming 5 x DVDs is about 30Mbs and one HDDVD is about 20Mbs)?
One theory I have is that I am using Cyberlinks PowerDVD to view HDDVD material and I wonder if this program isnt as good at streaming from a NAS as WinDVD? (It does stream standard DVDs ok).
If anyone has any thoughts on this Id appreciate it. Thanks.
BTW, Streaming HDDVD from the local hard disk is fine.