I've a bunch of older NAS boxes @ home and data is scattered among them. Anyway, all my movies are on a WD my book live 1tb networked hard drive connected to a gigabit router. Last night, my wife was streaming a movie to a WDTV live+ over wifi-G speeds (I was directly connected to the gigabit router by cable and decided to copy some videos from my desktop to the WD my book live drive) and few minutes later her movie became choppy and unwatchable. I had to temporarily stop what I was doing so she could finish her movie.
Now, I understand that the WD live hard drive has one 1tb drive in it, so obviously the drive head got tired of juggling back and forth on the spindle. My question is, what kind of NAS out there will do this job well in a similar situation. Will a simple swtich to a 2-bay or 4-bay NAS solve the problem or Do I need to upgrade to a build an x86 based box.
I've used freenas/whs etc in the past but am trying to cut down on energy consumption, so I switched to low power nas enclosures. My WHS had no problem performing well in similar situations in the past but I'm hesitant to go to the desktop route again. thanks
Now, I understand that the WD live hard drive has one 1tb drive in it, so obviously the drive head got tired of juggling back and forth on the spindle. My question is, what kind of NAS out there will do this job well in a similar situation. Will a simple swtich to a 2-bay or 4-bay NAS solve the problem or Do I need to upgrade to a build an x86 based box.
I've used freenas/whs etc in the past but am trying to cut down on energy consumption, so I switched to low power nas enclosures. My WHS had no problem performing well in similar situations in the past but I'm hesitant to go to the desktop route again. thanks
