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FOR SALE: $2,900.00 5U server with Mini player 1080P

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labacom

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Kaleidescape 5U server model 2000 (first model) from our showroom with 5 x 300 gig hard drives but have room for lots more 750 gig hard drives. Capacity right now is about 110 DVD's and 15 CD's for music. This server is about 5 or 6 years old but is off most of the time, just turned it on to watch a movie or demonstrate to a client. Server comes with a mini 1080P player about a year old and a new remote control sealed in a box. This player upconverts regular DVD's to 1080P picture and can be installed behind a TV because its very small. We are selling it because we are upgrading to Blu-Ray player and smaller size server (we have to travel with server to show clients)
This server does not have the option to import movies because this player does not have a DVD tray.
We will ship the server after we get your payment verfied. in the picture it shows the server inside a small rack but I am not selling the rack and enclosure.
I will include a brand new in the box remote control by Kaleidescape so that you can use this player. Server will come with no movies per my agreement with Kaleidescape.
Server model
KSERVER-2000-E
Serial # 0000-0000-1471
 

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labacom said:
.........This server does not have the option to import movies because this player does not have a DVD tray.........
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For those reading this post keep in mind the Seller is NOT saying you cannot import movies. Of course the Server WILL store movies but you need to purchase a separate Reader or Movie Player that has an import tray in order to import movies to the Server.:)


Jim
 
Are 750GB drives even available for purchase anymore from K? or would it have to be in the secondary market?
 
Knowing that you need an M300 or M500 player to play Bluray, and a disk vault to make it worth it, can this server work with the bluray ecosystem?

Assuming that the server could be filled with 5U cartridges and the largest each one could be is 750GB in size, how many blurays could this hold?

And what about streaming Blurays- how many simultaneous bluray streams could it produce?

Thank you.
 
The KSERVER-2000 did not have GigE, but 100mbit ethernet so I would have to guess that 2 BluRay streams would be the most one could expect from it.
 
Hi iansilv,

I will check how many Blu-rays will fit. As the other gentleman said this server did not have the gigabit card so it may be limited to one stream (maybe two) it can do 5 streams of regular DVDs and or CDs


Ron
 
How many Blu-Ray will fit in the 5U

Hi Iansliv,

Each Blu ray takes about 40 gig or less, I think the 5U will fit around 225 Blu-rays.

Thanks
Ron
 
A 750 GB drive will hold about 19 BluRay titles, so a fully loaded 5U server can handle up to ~210 BluRay discs.
 
Well, I no longer have my KSERVER-2000, I traded that in for my 3U server, but it was able to do 2 streams of Kalahari, which was a 40mbit bitrate MPEG2 file. It should have no issues handling 2 simultaneous streams of BluRay. Beyond that, I do not know. I suspect it might be able to do 3 streams but with TCP/IP overhead and the variable bit rate of BluRay, one might see some issues if 3 streams all have high bit rate requirements at the same time. I certainly wouldn't want to guarantee a 100 mbit line being able to reliably stream data rates that can have up to 40mbit data rates. If somebody wanted to test it out, they could always put a 100mbit switch on a 3U server and see if it could deliver 3 Bluray titles reliably. I don't have any 100mbit managed switches to test it with.
 
If you assume an average bit rate of 36 Mbit for BR (can be up to 40, IIRC), then doing the math would indicate probably no more than two simultaneous streams.


Jim
 
Yes, although some titles have had lower bit rates. I don't know the actual bit rate for The Bank Job, but it was an incredibly fast load on my system and it is a single layer BD so I am going to have to assume that the bit rate isn't so high. It would be interesting to see all the technical details of the titles on a Kaleidescape system, like total file size, bitrate, etc. Too bad they don't have an area for us to see such information similar to the installer web interface tool.
 
do you know what size disks I can install in the server ? can I buy 1TB disks? will they work ?

Ephi
 
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