<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pete Clarke</b> <<a href="mailto:pete@devilincarnate.eclipse.co.uk">pete@devilincarnate.eclipse.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>Would the following be acceptable as a media/tuner backend server multiple<br>(4 or more) frontends...<br><br>Proliant 8500r<br>Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's<br>2GB Ram;<br>2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC;<br>1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC
<br>4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5);<br>2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners;</blockquote><div><br>
That should do just fine. Unless you're planning to do playback
on this machine, it won't need a sound card. You might consider
throwing some more disks in there, if you can manage it.<br>
</div><br></div>Carl Fongheiser<br>