I think the HDD (or WinXP) is nearing death or something as recently it seems like file copy operations are slow as hell, I'm trying to push 4 GB from C drive to another drive and it's taking bloody forever (re: hours)
I'm not sure if WinXP is ready for re-install or if it's actually the drive.
Defrag doesn't show much fragmentation
The counter just keeps going up and up, very frustrating...
Any tools I can use to figure out if it's the drive?
1. Run a full checkdsk on both drives.
2. At least run the analysis function from http://www.mydefrag.com/ to see if it is a fragmentation issue. (note you normally need more than 10% free space to fragment a drive.
3. Find the Manufacture diagnostic tool for each drive and test them with that.
See if you also can't get an app to look at the S.M.A.R.T. data on both drives. Things of interest may be realocated sectors and error counts.
Found the issue, there was a file backup process failing silently to my Drobo and it was locking everything on C
My Drobo is nearly full so that's why so slow.
Thanks guys!
Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2012, 10:22:39 AM
My Drobo is nearly full so that's why so slow.
DROBO HUNGRY!
FEED DROBO!
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That's Ice Hot, Thorin. Ice Hot.
Quote from: Mr. Analog on September 26, 2012, 12:57:21 PM
That's Ice Hot, Thorin. Ice Hot.
Damn, that was hard to find a matching image for. First I found the transcript (http://dwtpscripts.tripod.com/7thdoc/7e/7e2.html) for the episode, then I finally found the image of the Doctor drinking Fizzade:
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57886/tardis/images/5/5d/Fizzade.jpg)
Anyway.
Buy your Drobo some feed, err, drives.
Yepp... maybe this weekend :)
Dammit, I have that whole series sitting on my Drobo waiting for me to turn on the TV and Xbox and watch it. The remote is within reaching distance and I'm sitting the living room working (no one else home).
must ... fight ... urge! It's worktime, not watchtime, dammit.
If you were running Plex you could stream it to your phone and watch it WHILE you work :)
Not that I would do such a thing with my Xoom...
1. I don't own a smartphone (I'm in the minority in my family; it's just my six year old and me without a smartphone, the other four have one)
2. Why stream to a 3" phone or 7" tablet with a single speaker each when I'm sitting on the couch in front of the 50" tv with surround sound?
3. I could even just watch it right on my laptop if I were to do that - video on the right, work on the left
But I know if I started watching, I wouldn't get any work done.
I like having background noise on so, sometimes I just have stuff streaming right next to me.
I get the background noise thing, I'm the same way. But I don't think the Paradise Towers serial would be background noise for me...
Plex has a dedicated desktop client and are trialing a completely browser based streaming interface. Build your library and sort it once run it anywhere http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/08/28/part-3-introducing-the-new-plex-web-client/
Yes, I get it, Plex Is Cool. By the way, what kind of system is required to run it, since it transcodes on the fly?
Would my Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI 8400GS vid, WinXP box handle more than one stream (reading from a networked-not-USB-connected Drobo) while simultaneously supporting 3 or 4 logged in users, uTorrent running, iTunes running, Minecraft left logged in under one user and in active use under another?
Because that's my setup.
Dual core 2Ghz or higher needed for transcoding.
The transcoded intelligently only transcodes what is needed, it it will shift container formats, video codec and audio codec and bit rate as needed.
If your clients can support the content natively it will not take up resources.
If a client needs a full transcode your system probably will only be able to support just that transcode , but should still be able to serve other clients if they can directly support what they are streaming.
Desktop Plex client - should natively support everything an only request bitrate changes if you choose to use it remotely.
Roku2 - native h264 mp4 will require lots of other things transcoded
Wdtv live - supports a number of formats but will requires some transcoding
Xbox/ps3 - various audio codecs and container files will be transcoded in DLNA mode
Web client (not yet released) - always transcodes
Just some examples.
FYI the transcoder will use up 100% of two CPUs easily, it is best not to run it with other high demand services.
I have mine limited to two vCPUs on a vm on my quad core workstation at the moment.
Quote from: Thorin on September 26, 2012, 05:06:28 PM
Yes, I get it, Plex Is Cool. By the way, what kind of system is required to run it, since it transcodes on the fly?
Would my Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI 8400GS vid, WinXP box handle more than one stream (reading from a networked-not-USB-connected Drobo) while simultaneously supporting 3 or 4 logged in users, uTorrent running, iTunes running, Minecraft left logged in under one user and in active use under another?
Because that's my setup.
Well I think you might be fine doing it if you could doing Tveristy, seeing as though Plex requires less hardware. My Q6600 does 3 streams just find, so I think you will be fine doing one stream, maybe 2 with the other apps.
Actually looking at your setup, you have newer hardware, better video card, and the only two things you are doing more than my Q6600 is the Minecraft and MultiUser. Otherwise your setup is almost my setup (network attached Drobo included). And I have a Roku, WD Live, iPad and PC connections all working of my Plex server.
Like I said, if you did it with Tveristy, you can do it with Plex. Will be the same experience if not better.
Hmm, Q6600 is better than an E6550; similar clock speed but twice the cores and cache. Also, you have a worse video card than the absolute cheapest fanless video card I could find? Also also, I generally don't transcode with Tversity, I just make sure I get XviD or DivX .avi files so that the Xbox can handle them natively. Otherwise I get buff...ering, b...uffer...ing, bu...ff...e...r...i...n...g.
I only used to get that when wirelessly streaming 1080p stuff
Quote from: Thorin on September 27, 2012, 09:23:43 AM
Also, you have a worse video card than the absolute cheapest fanless video card I could find? Also also, I generally don't transcode with Tversity, I just make sure I get XviD or DivX .avi files so that the Xbox can handle them natively. Otherwise I get buff...ering, b...uffer...ing, bu...ff...e...r...i...n...g.
Yeah its called onboard video...
Plex won't transcode any more than Tveristy does as it depends on the connecting devices capabilities, so like I said you should have the same experience if not better with Plex if this was your Tversity box as well.
Plex trans-coding is all about the CPU, it has very low ram requirements and does not have any GPU optimization that I know of. Also for supported devices it is very aware of the supported codecs on the devices and won't trans-code if it is not needed.
I would highly recomend a device with a native Plex app, however DLNA support is very good for XBOX, PS3, WDTV and Samsung devices... However Native devices like the Plex Windows/Mac client, a Roku, iOS or android device will give you cool stuff simmilar to XBMC like the plot summaries etc.
I remember when Melbosa was pushing me to use PS3MS because it was so good :)
Anyway, yes, some day I'll probably switch over from Tversity to Plex. That day is not today, mostly due to inertia (c'mon, I really, really, wanted SSDs for my old machines to try and make them a little more responsive and couldn't even get the energy to hop in the car and go buy them when they were cheap - on the other hand, I don't have to try and find that money now and I don't have to reinstall OSes or anything).
But this all started with me saying I was trying to fight the temptation to watch TV instead of doing work, and I'm sure installing Plex won't help with that :)
And PS3MS was sooo good for its time. And I hear ya - its why it took so long for me to switch to Plex - Tversity is working for you and without a major problem there won't be a huge drive to change. And that problem might be different for everyone of us. If I was just watching TV Shows on my PS3, I probably still wouldn't have changed to Plex.
Plex was just so smooth. I just wish I could get streaming working for all devices (I'm sure I can I just haven't had the time/energy to do it yet).
In fact I only know of one person who hasn't had Plex run smooth but I suspect there were some issues with another tool he was using.
So with all the time that we spent talking about other things ... have your files finished copying? :P
Quote from: Thorin on September 27, 2012, 02:59:32 PM
So with all the time that we spent talking about other things ... have your files finished copying? :P
No, I have to go to MemEx this weekend buy some larger drives and put them in my Drobo.
I parked the files on another drive, it's just not mirrored right now.
I have 3 brand new 2TB drives sitting at home, 7200 RPM Seagates. I needed them for cloning when my Drobo failed, but that is all they have been used for. Sell them to you for $80 a piece if you want them. If we see each other on Saturday, then you could get them from me then.
Quote from: Melbosa on September 27, 2012, 03:24:54 PM
I have 3 brand new 2TB drives sitting at home, 7200 RPM Seagates. I needed them for cloning when my Drobo failed, but that is all they have been used for. Sell them to you for $80 a piece if you want them. If we see each other on Saturday, then you could get them from me then.
I already have 2 TB drives in my Drobo, I need to go bigger...
Check on your model of Drobo, some of the lower end ones do not support the 3TBs or need firmware updates to do so.
Quote from: Melbosa on September 27, 2012, 03:42:37 PM
Check on your model of Drobo, some of the lower end ones do not support the 3TBs or need firmware updates to do so.
Already checked, SATA III support and everything :)
Good man!
You've got it stuffed with 4x2TB? Are you running dual redundancy? Even then you'd have 4TB available...
...
Might be time to clean out the "special" folder.
Quote from: Thorin on September 27, 2012, 04:53:52 PM
You've got it stuffed with 4x2TB? Are you running dual redundancy? Even then you'd have 4TB available...
...
Might be time to clean out the "special" folder.
Well two 2 TB drives each make a 2 TB redundant array so I have two 2 TB redundant arrays.
The trouble is I put movies and TV on one and it fills up fast, wasn't really a problem until HD stuff really.
Oddly enough I don't really keep "special" stuff...
I may be interested in taking those drives off you Melbosa.
Quote from: Tom on September 27, 2012, 05:50:35 PM
I may be interested in taking those drives off you Melbosa.
Well they are just sitting here...