<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Thomas Boehm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@lists.boehmi.net" target="_blank">mythtv-users@lists.boehmi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Nick Rout wrote:<br>
> Does anyone have experience with this or similar machine<br>
> <a href="http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=624082220" target="_blank">http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=624082220</a> ? Intended use is as a<br>
> backend using HDHR tuners.<br>
><br>
> Size (WxDxH)mm: 445 (H) x 212 (W) x 550 (D) mm<br>
> Weight (Est): 32 kg<br>
> Processor: Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5420<br>
> Processor Speed: 2.5GHz<br>
> RAM: 4GB<br>
> Hard Drive:3x 75GB (8 hard drive slots altogether)<br>
> DVD-RW<br>
> SAS<br>
><br>
><br>
> I am guessing the CPU and RAM will be sufficient. My main concerns are<br>
> power consumption, heat and noise. I will be stuffing it full of 8 x 2<br>
> to 3 tb hard drives.<br>
<br>
</div></div>This machine will be "overkill" if you don't do a lot of transcoding. I<br>
recently migrated my backend to a HP Microserver N54L, which uses about<br>
~30W and runs without any problem for about two months now. I have two<br>
HDHR and record up to 2 recordings per tuner and the server does the<br>
occasional transcoding with HandBrake.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks everyone, I think I have been put off this monster in favour of something more modern and power friendly. I'll probably go for a fractal design 304 case (6 HDs, takes a mini-itx motherboard) or a HP Microserver. My only concern about the latter is the power for transcoding/HLS but maybe I don't need that anyway.<br>
<br>And yeah, hardware is expensive here (NZ). Galling considering we have been pegging .80US for some time, and are a similar distance from Asia where they make it all.<br><br>Cheers.<br><br>Under the stairs may make me relatively unworried about noise, but it is a small space and no ventilation, so low power is the way to go.<br>
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