<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I agree with making the P3 the backend, although 384MB is on the low<br>
end, it should be OK. It depends on how many tuners you have and<br>
whether you will have anything else running on the box.</blockquote><div><br>I just have one tuner and I don't plan on adding anymore any time soon.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Stuffing 4 drives in the case, make sure there is good airflow over<br>
those drives.<br>
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With 2x160GB and 2x250GB drives, will you make a 4x160 RAID5 or RAID0?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Yeah I was a little worried about heat. Maybe its time to cut a fan hole in the side of my case. I think I am going to go with RAID5. The 160 GB drives are getting old and I imagine one of them is going to go eventually <br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My dedicated backend has 2 x P3 600Mhz with 589MB of RAM, and a SCSI 6 x<br>
181GB software RAID 5. Recording two streams simultaneously, the RAID5<br>
process never goes above 5%.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for this info. I couldn't find a good reference for cpu usage. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Transcoding is usually done as a user job, setup in the backend. I<br>
think people may have setup a tuner-less slave backend on their<br>
frontends to do this sort of thing, but I have no experience myself.<br>
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</div></blockquote></div>I was thinking about doing this, but I wasn't sure if the overhead of the transfers is worth the gain in transcoding speed. I'm inclined to think it would be better to let the job run slowly on the backend rather than sending over 802.11g to the frontend. Can a frontend do transcoding or do you need to install a slave backend?<br>
<br>Thanks for all the input. I didn't want to go through all the work of setting it up just to find out that things did perform well.<br>