Home Server

[talion83]

I am looking to build a home server specifically for streaming media - both local and internet based. For OS I can use either Windows 7 Premium or Server 2008 R2.

I was wondering if there is anyway to put in SSD drives to function as a cache for the streaming content - so that it would buffer to an SSD or two then use that drive to stream it out. Other than the intel z68 motherboards and the 'smart response caching' (reason being that I haven't decided on an AMD or Intel solution yet: is there an AMD equivalent?).

Also, has anyone tried using the SSD with a very large paging file? Are there any draw backs to using these as the paging drive(s)?

 

[mvbighead]

You don't need to cache streaming content. Any new disk is more than fast enough to keep up with that task.

Also, using Windows Server 2008R2 would be an especially expensive and poor choice for a box to stream media.

Windows 7 + Media Center should be more than adequate.

 

[mfenn]

You don't need to cache streaming content. Any new disk is more than fast enough to keep up with that task.

Also, using Windows Server 2008R2 would be an especially expensive and poor choice for a box to stream media.

Windows 7 + Media Center should be more than adequate.

Agree. Any streaming application where you are even thinking of using the client version of an OS is not going to be bottlenecked by the disk.