Benchmarks for audio streaming

[Robin Reumers]

Hi,

At the moment I’m trying to compare test (bandwidth / file system benchmarks), and see how it would relate to streaming high sample rate audio files (24bit at 96Khz).

Can anyone maby explain to me the exact different between a network bandwidth / file system benchmark over ethernet?

My results are:
bandwidth network:
Mac OSX server – 39 MB/s
NAS server – 24 MB/s

file system:
Mac OSX server – 9 MB/s
NAS server – 15 MB/s
Hard disk (C:) – 33 MB/s

If I would calculate this in theory with audio files I could play up to:
54,61 mono audio tracks in 96Khz / 24 bit of the NAS server. (I could do the same for the Mac OSX)

Now I’m wondering how this would relate to the practicality of this?

Does anyone has some knowledge on this, please share it with me?

Thanks

Robin

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