I think I am going to go with a Kirkwood or other ARM-based device. It will be a good option for me even if I only improve my in-home backup. I found this handy overview of some of the products:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms">http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking at the Seagate goflex series, because they come with a speedy SATA HD in the same package. I like the neatness of that. However, I don't know if 128 MB of RAM is enough to run the mythbackend. Thoughts?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, digid myth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:digidmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank">digidmyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I played with this awhile and decided to stay with my larger server and have it on all the time. My current setup is a 6 core AMD based server with 12tb of hard drives. It is used for many other things than just Myth. Current power consumption average is 94 watts last month. At current electric rates that's less than 10.00 per month. I could most likely get my average down more but have not taken the time to tweak it any further. In my opinion the savings in $$ to get much lower is not worth the trouble. A good efficient processor, which my bulldozer is not as far as low power, at least an 80% rated power supply and putting the drives to sleep when not used is the best bang for the buck in getting the power usage down. It's even possible to shut CPU cores down on the fly in Linux which can save some power. The drives seem to be 50% of my power on boot the power spikes to almost 200 watts. Shutting down the front ends when not in use is a better option also. SSD drives allow for fast turn on if your FE can wake from USB then you can wake it with the remote. The only issue I have had with this is that any remote will wake the front end. Even if the inte nt is not to use myth. <div>
<br></div><div>Dale<span></span></div>
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