Online Storage for photos

[Norman Verona]

Will someone give him a nudge, he's talking in tongues again.

[Cleggy the Spyder Man]

reading with interest

 

I have always backed up on external drives and taken copies to work and vice versa

 

trouble is now my drives are full so hence the reasoning to look at backing up online - rather than buying extra drives

 

maybe I need to do both still but look at culling my pictures a bit

[Luapno]

What size are the photos you are storing ? do you really need to keep 100's of photos at 4-6mb each. Unless you want to print them out at large sizes it might be worth resizing a few and save a few Gbs

Happy Birthday by the way hope you are having a good one

Regards

Paul

[Blatman]

Just be aware, (as Dodgey said), I've yet to see a streaming app on a TV that works as well for Movies all the time as a dedicated movie client hardware device. We've got the one I mentioned, (client supplied), on a hardwired connection to all the TV's via a network with segregated VLANs for video streaming, pc's, control system etc. Each VLAN also has its own QOS settings, in the case of the video, it's set up as the highest priority.

 

But even so, very occasionally, you still get a little stuttering. (It's why we only recommend/supply dedicated hardware solutions at this point in time. Though no doubt that will change.

 

Still quite impressed with the Plex though, compared to what we've seen of these types of setups in the past. If you use Plex's own client to view films, it seems to work pretty trouble free.

 

A Gigabit network should have enough capacity for HD streaming to multiple clients.

My old instructor used to say that Qos was not needed if you had enough bandwidth. I doubt that holds true for VoIP but I plan to test that hypothesis at some point.

I managed a minor streaming test recently with 5 Apple TV's all streaming HD content across an old 10/100 switch. Once the initial buffering was out the way, they ran stutter free for several hours. On a Gigabit switch the initial buffering was much shorter with the same result, buffer free viewing.

All 5 Apple TV's were using a single MacBook Pro as the source.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

I don't think it's bandwidth causing the stuttering, (there's no lack, and frankly we know its done it with minimal traffic - Wire Sharked that leg of the network and there was very little going on other than normal background stuff)

 

it seems to be the actual software clients that Samsung have included in their software. Hardware clients plugged in on the same runs, (Plex uses the Windows Media Centre/X Box compatible devices and protocols) worked fine.

[Dodgey]

Indeed - testing shows it's the decoders in the TVs. (This is not just limited to Samsung). The decoders they use are different for the USB input and the LAN/Wifi input - licensing reasons I think. The USB/direct decoders work fine, it's the network decoders that don't. This is all at 100Mb - my lan is Gb but the port on the Sammy 40D6530 is 100Mb, which is still easily enough for 1080p.

 

I've tested it thoroughly to the n'th degree, from streaming from a Buffalo NAS, to running Servio DNLA server on an obscenely powerful PC. Nothing works reliably at 1080p. I've read on many accounts the WD Live TV streamer works perfectly.

 

Apple TVs only let you stream content in a format that they approve or is transcoded from iTunes - it's just not the same as grabbing raw uncompressed 1080p sources. The beauty of Apple devices is that their walled garden approach limits what you can do , but the things it does allow work perfectly. You can't run MKV files through Apple TV devices, which is what we are trying to achieve here.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

No indeed, we've seen the same problems on the same network with the current batch of Panasonics too.