[geeks] Disk to Disk Caching

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:56 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> That doesn't sound right.
> 
> I stream video from a NAS box all the time without issues, on 100baseT.
> 
> What is the bit-rate and size of the video files?
> 
> As far as "disk based disk cache" goes, I don't see the point.  Even if
> you could somehow do that, video is streaming, so the nature of a cache would
> basically work against you.
> 
> It would be easier and faster to just copy whatever you want to watch and
> watch it.

Since he was talking about setting up a HD editing system a few weeks
ago, I assume that he is talking about playback in that context.