streaming media network and hardware q's

BKLounger

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Mar 29, 2006
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I'm not sure whether to put this under networking or hardware. But right now i have a computer with a bunch of hard drives set up on my network. My xbox connects to it to stream media. The problem right now is it sounds like a jet engine probably a combination of many things it wasn't really built for sound. But i have an old 500mhz machine which is whisper quiet ( my current rig is 2ghz). My question is if i plop the hard drives into the old machine am i going to notice a difference when i am streaming my media over to the xbox
 

Goosemaster

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Apr 10, 2001
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nope. it should be fine.


you will notcie decreases in transfer speeds depending on the configuration, but for the msot part msot video stays below 10Mb/s and your machien should have no trouble dishing out files at at least 56Mb/s (7MB/s) or faster