On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Brian J. Murrell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 12:28 -0600, Tyler T wrote:<br>
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> Yes necessarily. A 5w tuner draws 5w from a PCI slot;<br>
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</div>When the BE is running.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> a 5w tuner draws<br>
> 5w from a Plug.<br>
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</div>I thought you were using some sort of external (to the plug) tuner which<br>
would be on 24x7 since you can't suspend it.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Hence, a fixed cost for any MythTV installation.<br>
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</div>Not when you can power the tuner down when not using it.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> This is getting pedantic. I think we've both made our points, is it<br>
> really necessary to debate minutiae?<br>
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</div>Well, I'd just be interested in actual numbers from your end. I<br>
provided the numbers from my end.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> 500GB. (1TB drives are also available.)<br>
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</div>Cool. But as has been said in this thread, you really don't want your<br>
recordings and database on the same drive.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> By definition a Plug is a small system that can't handle a lot of<br>
> recording, so I think we're going to be ok. ;) Still, there's nothing<br>
> to prevent you from putting multiple spindles on one Plug computer.<br>
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</div>And increasing the power draw -- power draw that you cannot inhibit by<br>
suspending.<br>
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b.<br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course the other factor in sleeping your BE's is it really depends on the activity pattern of your LiveTV usage and your scheduled recordings. If i look at my BE's there are many days during a normal week where even in the middle of the night they are busy. So with this type of usage pattern a low operational power footprint is really the best strategy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Andrew</div></div>