I've been toying with the idea of reducing the wear and tear on my primary drive. My server has 4 drives on it, and uses the OS drive for transcoding. My media is direct MKV rips, so unless I'm playing on local computer using PMP, it transcodes everything. My server isn't a powerhouse, but it is capable enough to meet my needs. My main goal is to reduce the wear on my drive.
All my media is 480p DVD rips to MKV, or 576p handbrake MKV reductions of BD. I don't have the storage capacity or processing power to use BlueRay rips. I'm fine with that, really I am. Image quality is good enough where I still enjoy watching my content.
If I've got a maximum of 3 people streaming from my server at once (due to upload bandwidth), what size RAMDrive would I optimally need, and what is the minimum size I would need? My server can't hold much. 24GB I know I can get, 32GB might be max. I'd think a 4GB or 8GB RAMDrive would suffice, but I'm not sure. Either way, it's an expense, and I don't even know if I have the budget for it currently.