[mythtv-users] What's the best HD frontend only hardware?

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> Or if your network is clean enough, network boot the machine and do away
> with a storage device completely.
> The video is going over the network anyway, there is little need for a
> front-end to write to disk heavily unless you are going to do archiving
> (which I have been experimenting with over the net anyway).
> Gareth

Frontends make nice little backup media servers. They are also
handy for automated backups of the myth database. Having one of
those setup on one of my frontends saved me a lot of grief when
I upgraded the backend. (and things became interesting)

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