<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br><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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Jul 22, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Mitch Gore wrote:<br>
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> At this point im thinking im going to use my old Athlon 1800+ to<br>
> build a NAS box. I do have one other 120gb drive i would like to<br>
> put in my Mythbox but there is no room in the backend box. I don't<br>
> really like the idea of having to turn on another PC 24x7 just to<br>
> run drives but i guess its necessary. I cant really move my backend<br>
> to the NAS/new box because commflag and transcode will run REALLY<br>
> slow on a 1.5ghz AMD! Compared to my 5700 X2!<br>
><br>
> Thanks for the comments. Now i just need to find time to build a<br>
> box.....Dam Small Linux looks like a good choice for this project tho.<br>
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</div>It's more cost-effective to buy a big new hard drive and replace<br>
what's there than to run another machine. Newegg had a 500GB drive for<br>
$69 this morning.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank"></a></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Except for this sentence that wrote last post <br>"I do have one other 120gb drive i would like to<br>
> put in my Mythbox but there is no room in the backend box."<br><br>I dont want to have a tower machine in my theater. I have a mATX Home Theater case that can only hold 3 drives. If i remove the myBook that has 2x250 drives and if i add the 120gb thats a total on 6 disks....<br>
<br>If i use a old machine how long would it take to cost me ~130 in Power? Considering its a AMD 1800+.<br><br>Mitchell<br> </div></div><br></div>