my library/media center teacher has been bugging me about creating a her a media server to stream all of the dvd that are ripped to a hard drive. using freenas at home, i have had a great experience streaming video and music to my windows and apple computers. my current freenas box is a dual core amd @ 3.1ghz and 2 gigs of ram and 4 500gb drives. the most traffic my nas sees is myself streaming a video or two while doing file transfers from my mythtv box. at school there is about 40 teachers that would stream multiple or the same video. (that would never happen, but i would like to be able to see atleast 10 clients stream different or the same clip flawlessly or pretty close) my question is, is a core 2 quad or a phenom going to the job? i would probably put about 6 or 8 gigabytes of ram in it along with atleast 2 gigabit nics. there is only about 300 gigs of movies so i would do a raid 10 with 2 500gb drives.
basically i want to know what kind of specs i am going to need to have said operation completed.
chris
basically i want to know what kind of specs i am going to need to have said operation completed.
chris