.ISO Playback Under Stress?

[PeteCress]

HD200 over Cat5e through gigabit switch/gigabit router.

.ISOs live on a 1-tb Sata-1 disk internal to the server box.

Server is getting hit (hard?) by having three .ISOs copied to it by another PC - and, in case of one of the .ISOs, from a third PC by that second PC.

Playback is jerky. 30 seconds, pause, 5 seconds, pause, 3 seconds, pause, 32 seconds pause.... and so-forth.

I'm guessing it's just the server's disc drive is getting hit hard enough by those three concurrent copy activities that it's getting in the way of the HD200's playback. Dunno if Sata-1 goes through the CPU or not... so maybe the mobo is the bottleneck...

Does any of this ring true?

Is there anything tb done setup-wise to mitigate it? (maybe some sort of buffer setting...).

What about disc drives? Could I have made a better choice than Sata-1?

Obviously not a big deal - or even a little deal - since the proximate cause will go away after a few more DVDs are ripped and copied.

More a matter of curiosity than anything else.

[flavius]

Well, in your case that's not much else you can do but not to copy during playback.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by flavius

Well, in your case that's not much else you can do but not to copy during playback.

Kinda what I figured.

But, recalling that the old SCSI drives did their own I/O without loading up the PC's CPU, I thought I'd troll for a little knowledge about functional equivalents - if there are such things.