Good morning all,<br><br>I currently have an old desktop PC running Mythbuntu (backend-only), using a Nova-T 500, but it's big, loud, and relatively expensive to run. I was thinking about getting a mini-itx motherboard (or smaller!), which used a laptop hard drive, all in a nice small case, and pair that with a Linux-based* commercial NAS (so should the MythBox die I can still access my other media). That's the plan, but I'm not sure how much processing power a backend-only system would need. There seems to be a lot of articles on the Wiki about hardware, but most are out of date (they talk about version 20), and/or focus on front-ends or both-end set-ups.<br>
<br>I had a look on the PVR Hardware Database and only one entry really seemed to fit what I was looking for - <a href="http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_pvrent.php?systemid=Myth%20BackEnd%20Only" target="_blank">http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-view_pvrent.php?systemid=Myth%20BackEnd%20Only</a> - but that set-up used a 2GHz Pentium 4, which I obviously would not be able to run on my planned system.<br>
<br>So my question is, has anyone created a backend-only MythTV system using a small, power efficient computer, and if so, what components did you use, and how well does it run?<br><br>PS. If anyone knows of any commercial NASs which do run Linux, could you let me know, as I've not found one yet.<br>
<br>* the NAS doesn't have to run Linux, but I'd like to be able to set up symbolic links from the NAS to the MythBox in order to access the recordings directly over Samba.<br>