WD RED or WD RED Pro?

[Joey Martin]

Hello everyone,

I am building a plex media server and would like 1-2 users to be able to stream BluRay quality video simultaneously. All videos are already in MP4 format and will be streamed at original quality so transcoding will not be necessary. Will the 5400 RPM drives be good enough for two BluRay videos to be streamed simultaneously? Or will I need the 7200 RPM WD Red Pros for that? I'd obviously prefer for to go with the normal Reds for the lower costs but don't want to shoot myself in the foot with a bad purchase.

Thanks!

 

[kanewolf]

Unless both your streaming devices are connected via wired ethernet, you probably won't be able to do it because of network limitations rather than disk limitations.

 

[Joey Martin]

Unless both your streaming devices are connected via wired ethernet, you probably won't be able to do it because of network limitations rather than disk limitations.

Well I've already tested plex a bit on my current desktop/network. I had a friend stream from their house(though their network) and I streamed to my phone(on my network) and both streams worked fine. That was with a 7200 rpm drive though so I just want to know if it would be much different with a 5400 rpm drive.

 

[wyliec2]

I have a media server with WD Red 3 Tb drives in RAID 6 array. The BD files are in ISO format and streaming two movies simultaneously works fine over my wired network. No experience with wireless streaming.