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Related to data being grouped on a physical or logical medium (a storage container).

A storage container (physical or logical) with specific type of data. Typically exchangeable. Examples are tapes (DLT, LTO, QIC, etc.) or container files.

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Is RAID 0 or JBOD better for home media server?

I have an external two-bay drive enclosure (the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro) connected to a Mac Mini (my home media server) over FireWire 800. I'm streaming media to other computers in the house over wired gigabit. I have two 1.5 TB drives that I'm…
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Can gigabit media converters affect performance?

We are looking to upgrade our network infrastructure. We have fiber between our IDFs and our MDF but have found fiber core switches to be significantly more expensive than copper. If we were to have a copper core switch and use media converters to…
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HP dl170 g6 and LO100 (iLO) - Can't boot from virtual media

I'm trying to make an HP DL170 G6 server boot via the "virtual media" feature. The system doesn't even try to boot from the virtual media, it seems unable to see it! Here's the test we've been doing: Checked correct boot order to force CD/DVD and…
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Linux automated media files transcoding

I'm looking for software that would help to implement above described scenario. By automation i mean minimization of actions needed for that process. For example, it would be nice to run some daemon that will constantly look to some folders and…
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Intranet music web application for an office media server?

My office is thinking of setting up a media server with speakers connected to it so that everyone in our office can queue up music via a web app. Right now we just pass around a speaker cable. I'd like something like a jukebox, where the server…
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Windows Server: Is it possible to run Certificate Authority while having Essentials experience installed?

I have a Windows Server 2012 machine running a certification authority, but also need the same server to run Windows Server Essentials Media Pack. This requires the Essentials Experience role to be installed, which cannot be installed when CA is.…
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How to make Web ISO work in Virtual Media on SuperMicro ipmi?

How does Virtual Media Web ISO work on SuperMicro ipmi? I am using SuperMicro sever. I want to be able to mount bootable ISO image to a server, launch long process there (disk formatting), and then turn off my laptop. But if I do it, the remote…
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How do I calculate the probability that a data storage device breaks?

There are lots of different storage media. To name a few: DVD's CD's Normal hard drives SSD hard drives USB flash sticks Let's say that I have saved some files to a certain media. How would I calculate the probability that the media/device will…
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IIS ignoring mime-type settings and serving file as application/octet-stream

We added both handlers and mime-types for IIS in the web.config to tell the server how to handle the different types of audio and video files we are using on the site. IIS does not seem to be respecting these mime-types, but is rather reverting to…
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Intranet radio station over network

My company runs shopping centers around the country and from time to time we receive complaints regarding the music selection playing in the shops. I'd like to build a centralized music streaming server that the shops will be able connect to using…
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IP Webcam Streaming to website through a flash player

I have been working on setting up a website that aggregates webcams from several local businesses onto a single website. I would like to only require the businesses to need a webcam and not the supporting computer. It seems the best solution for…
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Media deployment advice

We have applications that have a lot of static content (>60gb) which is updated frequently. It used to be we would manually rsync from vendors and between environments, and our code would rely on naming conventions to find files. Only now are we…
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Are there any soultion to stream flv/f4v to Adobe Flash Media Server from files on a client machine?

Our customer is looking for a solution to stream flash video to Adobe Flash Media server from his client machine. I need something like Adobe Live Media Encoder, but the source needs to be a playlist on the client machine. I tried Adobe Media…
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Magento and Media Temple, playing nicely

I am trying to get the page load time as low as possible in my Magento store. I am using a Media Temple (dv) Extreme, which has 2GB of RAM. I have had APC setup along with Fooman Speedster plugin for caching the CSS/IMAGES etc. The page load time is…
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High usage media server performance question + Backup solution

I have a fairly busy media related website which allows my users to stream / download large MP3 files (50-200Mb), at busy periods I have around 250+ concurrent streams / downloads. I have over 500GB uploaded monthly, and 40+TB downloaded…
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