[mythtv-users] Extremely Good Deal on 2.5" drive

[Brian Wood]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote:

> On 6/13/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:30 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>>> On Jun 13, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Mudit Wahal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kurobox, which can hold an IDE HD, is another alternative, though
>>>> double the price. Linksys NSLU2 running slug can be used as ext.  
>>>> NAS.
>>>> Both of these run linux, comes with source code etc etc. Kuro is  
>>>> quite
>>>> poweful, has its own community.
>>>>
>>>> link for kuro http://kurobox.com/
>>>> link for nslu2 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
>>
>> both of which are expensive. For the price of the Kurabox, I can  
>> get a
>> High End Via EPIA M10K (~USD159) or if a lower spec, even cheaper!
>> (533Mhz @ USD89)
>>
>> Just Add Ram and HD.
>>
>> (actually, that isn't too bad an idea. Geta 533Mhz EPIA, Add in 128MB
>> Ram, 1 PCI SATA/IDE adapter and put it into a casing and hook up 4-6
>> hard drives for NAS)
>>
>>
>
> How much are the case with power supply for the EPIAs ? Last time I
> checked couple of months back, it was as expensive as the mobo itself.
> Also, the older EPIAs used to take SDRAM which was expensive compared
> to DDR. I think the CPU (266 Mhz, PPC) in kuro is quite powerful. I
> dont know how does it compare to 533Mhz EPIA. Kuro has gigethernet
> which gives it higher marks.
>
> With Kuro and NSLU2, atleast you will save in power over a long period
> of time, as they only take 15-25Watts per hour.
>
> If Kuro has enough horse power to record stuff over the haupagge USB,
> then its a perfect low power backend.
>

Recording from a USB capture device that has hardware encoding is a  
piece of cake, an NSLU2 can do that.

Running mysql and the rest of a backend is something else again, and  
I doubt seriously that a slug could do it, tough I'm not sure about  
the Kuro - it has the same speed CPU but a more capable one (it has  
an FPU for example) and it has a lot more RAM, maybe...