[mythtv-users] New system configuration

[jedi]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:40:21PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Christopher Kerr <mythtv at theseekerr.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Kaare Rasmussen <kaare at jasonic.dk> wrote:
> >> The central box might very well be based on
> >> - 1 ASRock Nettop ION 330 HTBD
> >> - 1 E30 Combo Plus DVB-T/C
> >>
> >> So far so good.
> >
> > No, not really - the Ion boxes don't make very good backends -
> > recording DVB streams is generally fine (provided you use a desktop
> > drive, not a smaller, slower laptop drive), but tasks like commercial
> > flagging will be very slow.
> 
> Additional clarification: unless you plan to have the backend machine
> connected to a television, and thus being used as a frontend (I'd
> recommend not, you'd be surprised how annoying the hard drive noise
> during recording can be), using an Ion system makes no sense - the

...my variation on that is sort of revo+hdpvr as an hdhr workalike. The backend
doesn't record to the local disk. It records to the master backend which sits
in another room.

[deletia]

   For the big beefy backend in another room not attached to a TV, the ION
gear really doesn't offer any advantage. OTOH, a quad core box with lots of
room to expand drive-wise is not terribly expensive to start out with.

   My current master backend came from one of those choose-your-own-parts
barebones box builders on the web. I just added the SATA rack and the hard
drives.