Hi guys -- I'm looking to set up a streaming video service on a campus LAN. We are going to have a very large library of video (5 TB+). Was wondering what sort of hardware would be needed to store 5 TB or more of data (with room to grow), and what sort of server hardware would be needed to support streaming of this video (assume I have an ultra-efficient zero-copy streaming solution implemented in C already). I think I need to use a SAN, but I'm not sure how that all works.

Also, is there a more efficient way of organizing a filesystem than just dumping all of the files in one directory?

Thanks.

You'd need some hard drives

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You'd need some hard drives
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He obviously knows this... so why be a smart ass?

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[quote author=tumeria link=topic=16706.msg169089#msg169089 date=1179278080]
You'd need some hard drives
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He obviously knows this... so why be a smart ass?
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check out the rest of his posts.

You can use a SAN, or NAS, or whatever.

If you have the budget, get a good quality server from Sun or HP.  Talk to a sales rep and tell them what you're looking for.
Google, too.