i'm having an issue with playing back blu-rays iso across my network stuttering. I think the issue is with the disks(WD Green Drive), the stuttering lessens when i optimize the disk but is still present. It could be a combination of things also. I looking to see if other people have issues streaming blu-rays with this drive.
I have:
Server WSE 2012
2 sata II western digital green drive 2TB in raid 0 on a gigbayte ga-ma785gm-us2h
6GB of Ram
Dual Core AMD Athalon X2
Network
Gigabit network Jumbo Frames at 9mtu
Cat5e wiring
Netgear JGS524 switch
Each machine is using Realtek GB Nic
HTPC: Win 7 Pro
Core i5 370K
Asus p8z77-vLX
8GB of Ram
Vertex SSD Boot
1 TB Toshiba HD
I'm thinking I should ditch the green drives and go with red drives and maybe a 3ware raid controller on the server. If anyone else is streaming Blu-ray iso across their network and overcame stuttering please point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
Network Streaming Blu-Ray Stuttering issues
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Caviar Green drives are plenty fast enough to handle a single Blu-ray stream, provided the drive is healthy and is not being overworked by some other application. You have to consider that a single Blu-ray stream is about the same as 2-3 TV streams, and Caviar Green drives are known to handle at least 8 TV streams simultaneously. And to top it off, you are running RAID 0, which decreases the workload to each drive.
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Thats what I thought! So maybe the (softraid) on the Mobo? When streaming looking at prefmon disk transfers will drop to 0/mbs then creep up to 3/mbs. I just tried upgrading the motherboard raid drives and bios last night a little improvement was shown but still stuttering takes place. I am really hoping to avoid spending money an a real raid controller.
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OK I really thinks its time to upgrade the Raid Im and getting these errors in the event log
Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort1, was issued.
Filter Manager failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolume102'. This volume will be unavailable for filtering until a reboot. The final status was 0xC03A001C.
Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort1, was issued.
Filter Manager failed to attach to volume '\Device\HarddiskVolume102'. This volume will be unavailable for filtering until a reboot. The final status was 0xC03A001C.