[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking about this thing last night, and I don't think I'd want
> it as a master backend, at least in my case, because my MySQL db is on
> the master, and I doubt this thing could carry the load of the DB,
> along with everything else it would need to do. It could slot into my
> setup very easily, since my master has two HDHR's on it, and two
> PVR-x50's that I will be de-comming soon, and uses a couple of NAS
> servers for disk.

A master backend server does /not/ have to run the database, it can be
on another machine.

However that would kind of defeat the purpose of what we are
discussing, ie having the wallwart as the /only/ 24x7 device.