[mythtv-users] USB Harddrives
Brad DerManouelian
myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Jul 22 15:55:14 UTC 2008
On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Mitch Gore wrote:
> At this point im thinking im going to use my old Athlon 1800+ to
> build a NAS box. I do have one other 120gb drive i would like to
> put in my Mythbox but there is no room in the backend box. I don't
> really like the idea of having to turn on another PC 24x7 just to
> run drives but i guess its necessary. I cant really move my backend
> to the NAS/new box because commflag and transcode will run REALLY
> slow on a 1.5ghz AMD! Compared to my 5700 X2!
>
> Thanks for the comments. Now i just need to find time to build a
> box.....Dam Small Linux looks like a good choice for this project tho.
It's more cost-effective to buy a big new hard drive and replace
what's there than to run another machine. Newegg had a 500GB drive for
$69 this morning.
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