<br>Finally, my last question.<br><br>In an effort to be more green, I'd like to get rid of my two rack-mount, server class machines in my basement. Currently, one is a general purpose server, with all my "important" stuff on it (< 80Gb), and one is my mythtv backend. <br>
<br><br>The general purpose server runs DHCPD, DNS, sshd, samba, http, https, mysqld, and anything else I think I need. It is also the root filesystem server for two dedicated frontends. The mythtv backend has two PVR-500's, and accepts video from a hdhomerun.<br>
<br>So -- to go greener, I'd like to move to a commodity motherboard (just depricated one moving to an iMac), in a huge rackmount case. <br><br>Here are the questions:<br><br>I'd like my "important" stuff to be kinda backed up. Either with raid, or maybe just mirror'ed onto the myth video storage -- just to be safe. I think I should not worry about raid 5 here -- what do you think?<br>
The mythtv video store is not important to me -- I was planning on just buying a couple of 500Gb or so disks. No redundancy.<br><br>Can a normal 2.4Ghz CPU handle the job of those two file servers? (Video traffic + room to spare for other low cpu things)? Keep in mind, I have 2 hd tuners, and 4 sd tuners. Plus, it has to handle serving filesystems and video traffic to two dedicated front ends.<br>
<br><br>I think I'm going to be ok -- but I wanted to sanity check it with you guys. I'm pretty sure server-class machines suck up WAY more power than desktop machines.<br><br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br><br>-Dave<br>
<br>P.S. I think that's all of my questions -- for now!<br>