Subj : Re: Janet Jackson is a vector for windows xp systems
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Wed Aug 24 2022 01:55:00

 Ni> Makes sense.  I suppose I've often erred on the side of speed (even for
 Ni> large drives).  I have a PC that I use as a media server (among other
 Ni> things) using Plex Media Server.  Lately, I've been fairly regularly
 Ni> watching TV shows with it with someone else using Plex's "Watch Together"
 Ni> feature.  I have a rotating HDD in that PC for movies & TV shows, but to
 Ni> help ensure it can support streaming with more than one person (in case
 Ni> they happen to be watching something else from my Plex server while I'm
 Ni> also watching it), I wanted to help ensure it can handle that.

I suspect its going to be more a case of caching than outright speed that'll
be make or break for it.  The slowest SATA III drive is still nominally 6Gb/s
these days, although even the II's at 3Gb/s are orders of magnitude faster
than your network, so so long as the system can pump the data out reliably
the HD's ought to be minimal in their impact.

 Ni> For my main desktop PC, one thign I've been doing lately is video
 Ni> transcoding, and often I'll re-mux audio tracks into videos, which
 Ni> requires a lot of disk I/O.  When I built my current desktop PC in 2019,
 Ni> initially I put a 5400RPM drive in it, thinking I was going to mainly use

I used to do something similar.. a lot longer ago than 2019 though, I think
my bottleneck at the time was CPU. And yes that makes more sense to want a
faster drive for that instance. The only other place I've noticed a
difference in the drive speeds is games like Fallout 4 which tend to load big
slabs of data for individual areas... the faster drive locally does seem to
get it done faster.

Spec


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