<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mitch Gore</b> <<a href="mailto:mitchell.gore@gmail.com">mitchell.gore@gmail.com</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;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chuck Rudolph</b> <<a href="mailto:rudolph4404@comcast.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</font><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm tired of VHS tapes and multiple VCRs so I've
decided to build a MythTV box.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">This will be my first Linux machine and my first
build.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm looking for recommendations to the following.
Over built? Under built? Too noisy?</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">I wanted some room for expansion - more disk and
capture cards.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'd also like it quite. It'll be in the
entertainment cabinet with the TV. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">The TV is not digital and wont be for a few years
yet.</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2">I have 3 different inputs: </font></font></div>
<ul>
<font face="Arial" size="2"> <li><font face="Arial" size="2">analog cable</font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">cable converter box for scrambled channels -
Motorola DCT2224/1662/ACDEG</font>
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<li><font face="Arial" size="2">It has a 9 pin Female D connector labeled
data</font>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">It has what looks like a phono plug labeled
IR</font></li></ul>
</li><li><font face="Arial" size="2">and the afore mentioned VCR - I'd like to get rid
of some of those tapes...</font></li></font></ul>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </font></div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><span class="q"></span><div><br> wow, thats alot of storage. I would stay away from LVM. also why do raid 5? You going to loose alot of storage. is you TV that important to you? I would mount each drive on a differant point then add them in storage groups. This way if one dies you will only loose that disks recording and the rest of the system will be fine.
<br><br>One thing maybe you already have it but what about a DVD burner? Are you going to want to rip your DVD collection to your Myth box? Or archive you recording to native Myth backups or regular DVD's? <br><br>
<br>overall good chioces. This advice comes from lesenser learned from buying the wrong hardware and suffering or buying the right hardware and then having to rebuy stuff to upgrade to my needs. This system will really do alot and has lots of room for expansion. For only doing SD now its going to be way overkill. When you move to HD it will still be overkill but it will be nice to get the fast comm flaggin and transcoding.
<br><br>let me know how it turns out for you<br><br>Mitchell</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>I would definitely call that insane overkill for an SD only box. Look at it this way, instead of spending $1100 on an HD capable but SD only box now, you could spend $400 on an SD only box now, and put that extra $700 in the bank, and then use it to but an even more powerful HD box a year from now.
<br><br>I, for one, really enjoy the freedom that having multiple myth systems allows me - I can have my backend running on older, slower SD hardware, and then tinker with the new frontend stuff without worrying about missing recordings on the backend.
<br><br>Alternatively, you could scale back on the computer components and get an HD box + a small HD monitor for the same $1100 you have budgeted right now. <br><br>I'll be back shortly with my suggestions....<br><br>
<br></div>-chris<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>