Rom server

[celticsam]

Since there are several computers in my house -- and several kids whop love games, i was thinking of putting all of my roms on a central computer, and installing hyperspin on each computer (drawing roms from the server).  Any special considerations?  I am running a 100baseT internal network, so file transfer speed should not be an issue....

 

[JoyStickKilla]

Not really, pretty straightforward thing to do.

[celticsam]

Thanks.  I guess I have work to do....

[justinwebb]

I have a full rack server running all my movies, file shares and VM installs and map my hyper spin roms to all the pc's and it works great. Have cat6 running to each room so my arcades can go anywhere

[dougan78]

I have a full rack server running all my movies, file shares and VM installs and map my hyper spin roms to all the pc's and it works great. Have cat6 running to each room so my arcades can go anywhere

Now if you had a 10gig switch and nics in all your stuff that would be epic!

[ci2own]

Thanks.  I guess I have work to do....

 

 

What about a NAS?

[dougan78]

If you leave your games zipped it may take a long time to start some of the cd based systems games. Extracting stuff over the network takes time, more so with multidisk and larger games. It's fine for smaller games.