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James Broadhead wrote: |
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> On 27 October 2011 09:15, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> I'm wanting to get a hard drive that is pretty good size. I'm looking for |
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>> about 1 to 2TBs or so. Thing is, a lot of them seem to be 5900 or even 5400 |
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>> rpm drives. I realize that the data on there is packed pretty tight so I |
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>> want to ask a few people that may have one or more of these things a few |
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>> questions. Are they as fast as a slower RPM drive? Would they be fast |
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>> enough to play HD videos and such? I have quite a few 1080 HD videos. I |
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>> don't want the drive to cause issues. |
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> Ignoring your question somewhat, since the hdparm test won't actually |
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> get you 'effective' throughput, only 'ideal'. |
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> ( (4.4*1024*1024*1024) / (120*60) ) / 1024 |
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> 640.796 |
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> So a 4.4GiB movie that lasts 2 hours would require a sustained drive |
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> throughput of 640KiB/s - which is pretty achievable. |
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> My experience says that it doesn't matter how slow a drive you use, |
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> provided that you beef up mplayer's cache size and minimum cache |
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> threshold, since my laptop has a slow drive that likes to power down, |
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> but loads of RAM. |
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>>> grep cache /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf |
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> # cache settings |
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> # Use 8MB input cache by default. |
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> cache = 131072 |
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> # Prefill 20% of the cache before starting playback. |
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> cache-min = 20.0 |
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> # Prefill 50% of the cache before restarting playback after the cache emptied. |
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> cache-seek-min = 50 |
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I have the same here too. Like minds maybe? o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |