<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2007 8:39 AM, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<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)?</blockquote>
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<div>I can't speak for the availability, but I run my backend on an Athlon XP 1800 and I don't have any problem with 2 HD + 2 SD tuners running full bore with two commflagging jobs running as well. I think it would work well enough for you, especially at that price.
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<div>Kevin</div></div>