[kwlug-disc] 10GB networking

[Charles M]

Hi Khalid, yes, files do copy pretty fast already over gigabit.

The whole 10GB thing has more to do with my laziness. I tend to let my
media (DVDs/Blu-ray discs) sit for a while before I rip them.

Sometimes I'll rip 10-20 BD/DVD discs (a few seasons of a television
show I've picked up). I have internal 3 BD drives and an XBox HD-DVD
drive attached to a "ripping" machine via USB. I open 4 instances of
MakeMKV for simultaneous ripping of media. I can have 3 x Blu-ray (or
DVDs) discs and 1 DVD or HD-DVD all ripping at the same time. You need
a bit of trickery with MakeMKV, but it works. (You just have to select
each drive, and I've found it's best to let the discs open in Thunar
(XFCe) file manager first). This leads to me tending to transfer a lot
of files all at once, some of them pretty big. I still like collecting
old media as I can include other spoken languages, and subtitles. I
keep thinking I'm going to learn other languages this way, but so far
it hasn't happened.

I've seen speeds over our current network around 100MiB/s (or is it
MB/s,Mb/s - I forget) via filezilla. It was a bit lower before when I
only had spinning rust drives, having a boot SSD seems to help even if
the data is ultimately going to a spinning rust drive. Both systems
have SSDs as boot drives, but the media centre machine ultimately
stores them on a large spinning rust drive (which rsync's the
difference to a second identical-sized drive Sunday evening, giving me
time to make changes).

Sometimes I'll transfer over a big disc rip (4k, one of the drives has
a libre firmware that lets me read 4k discs) to the media centre, then
pull it to my main workstation, which is significantly better at
encoding than our ripping machine or the media centre. Then I'll
transfer the smaller encoded file back to the media centre and wipe
out the large 4k rip. (I have a couple of 4k discs that I picked up
from thrift shops because they were cheap, still using a 10+ year old
1080p non-smart TV). So speed is less of a factor then. It's more the
dumping of files.

A couple of years ago I made the silly decision to wipe the entire
drive in our media centre and start ripping media "fresh" because I
know more now about ripping media than I did back then. Big mistake,
ripping each disc, then encoding, was taking forever... thus the 4
drive solution.

Cheers

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 at 15:08, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> Charles,
> I am wondering how often do you need to copy those files?
> And how much elapsed time is 'reasonable'?
>
> If they are two directories that you have sync on different computers,
> then rsync should take care of new files only without copying
> everything.
>
> And if you do have just a Gigabit switch with proper Cat6 cables in
> between, you will be surprised at how fast copying is.
> No need for a new router, I think ...
>
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