[mythtv-users] dreaming hardware configuration

[David Whyte]

Geeeeez.  You took the limitless caash thing a little too far :P


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:03:24 -0800, nate s <nate.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well if money was no object...
> 
> My setup would be very similar to Ya-Fan Li's, execpt I would go with
> 15k rpm scsi drives such as these,
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-111-138&depa=1,
> and I'd have a lot of them, maybe 40 or so, set up in a raid 5 array
> (with hardware raid controllers, of course)  Also, I'd run 10GbE fiber
> to the backend, as I see no reason why not to with limitless cash.
> 
> I'd also get some of those HDTV DTV recievers with firewire out and
> figure out a way to get mythtv to use it as input.  (and, if I can't
> figure it out I could always hire a team of people to do so with
> unlimited money :)  )
> 
> I'd also have two slave backends, one for dedicated transcoding, and
> another for dedicated commercial flagging.
> 
> My hdtvs would all have DVI and/or VGA inputs, so outputting to them
> would not be a problem.  I'd prolly go with something like an epia to
> get it diskless, fanless, and very small, most likely with no heat
> pipes required.  Or, alternatively, I might have one or two of the
> frontends be fully functional nix boxes, in addition to a froentend,
> and use an athlon xp-m or pentium m and put a good gfx card in, with a
> quiet hard disk, and lots of heatpipes.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:37:56 +0000, Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:41:09 +1000, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > How long would it take to perform a network boot?
> >
> > Properly set up it is quite quick, not much slower than off disk.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > 
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