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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">i've been considering migrating from an all-in-one (FE/BE) solution to<br>a separate FE, BE (and possibly separate DB) solution for a little
<br>while now; but i don't have an extra machine to purpose as a dedicated<br>BE.<br><br>however, i just came across this deal:<br><br>> 1 Dell PowerEdge 2550 1 GHz server with 256 MB of memory<br>> - contains QTY=2 18GB internal SCA Ultra-160 SCSI drives
<br>> 1 Dell PowerVault 220S disk array<br>> - contains QTY=10 18GB SCA Ultra-160 SCSI drives<br>><br>> Come with LVD-SCSI cables and 3 power cords. No operating system.<br><br>the PowerEdge is a 1GHz PIII machine, which should be good enough for
<br>a BE considering all my capture cards are hardware MPEG.<br><br>two questions:<br>1) does anyone know the what the availability of SCA Ultra-160 SCSI<br>drives is like? (i haven't Googled yet...)<br>2) would it be stretching this machine to function as a BE running
<br>comm flagging/transcoding and dealing with HD (when i get there)?<br><br>i think i can pick this gear up for ~$200, which is quite a bit less<br>than i was going to spend on a new BE.<br><br>thoughts/comments?<br><br>
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<div>I think commflagging and definately transcoding will take *forever* on this box. That's a pretty old box. In my opinoin, you'd be better off buying newer hardware with a much faster CPU.</div>
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