[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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