<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 16 Jan 2015, at 10:40, Mike Perkins <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">On 16/01/15 02:28, Brian S wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Greetings all,<br><br>Very Short Version: Do we think a Phenom II X4 B50 CPU stuck in a M4A87TD<br>motherboard will have the ability to run well as a MBE & light-use desktop using<br>an HVR-2250, 2 HDHR's, and 3 HDD's (OS on SSD)?<br><br>Long Version: After running a rather computery mythtv setup for a few years, I'm<br>attempting to downsize a little bit, and am wondering if converting my desktop<br>into the only backend is feasible - it seems like it would be, but I have a<br>knack for overlooking the obvious sometimes.<br>Present setup is MBE w/HVR-2250 recording OTA + HDHR prime, SBE w/HVR-2250<br>recording OTA (two antennas - I live halfway between Chicago & Milwaukee) and<br>then a FE only.<br><br>Was thinking I could move all BE's to an always-on desktop machine. Pertinent<br>specs on the box in question:<br>CPU Phenom II X4 B50 (4 core, 3.1Ghz)<br>mobo Asus M4A87TD/USB3<br>8gb RAM (can bump to 16)<br><br>So the general idea here is to pull the HDD's from the respective BE's and add<br>them to the desktop computer, add one of the HVR-2250's to the desktop, and then<br>replace the other BE recorder with another HDHR (due mostly to cabling issues).<br>The OS runs on an SSD. The mobo has 6 sata slots so I should be ok with all the<br>HDD's. (I realize I will also need to do other steps with fstab & database and<br>what-have-you)<br>The Big Question here is mostly just does the above machine have enough oomph to<br>(theoretically but rather unlikely) record ~6 streams at once/run jobs/serve<br>content to FE's while also being a desktop for mostly light-duty stuff? The only<br>real CPU-intensive thing I can think I do is run virtualized windows XP for a<br>few minutes at a time to scan documents to dropbox.<br>And I suppose Big Question #2 is there anything I might be overlooking here that<br>means this won't work or is a Bad idea?<br><br></blockquote>Make sure you have a generous margin on your power supply, since you're adding several disks to an existing system. I would even suggest buying a new one to make sure you have sufficient capacity. Modern PSUs will have better caps, electronics, etc and will be more power efficient - if that's not an oxymoron.<br></div></blockquote>I would suggest check power-consumption first with a Kill-Watt device, most PSUs are way to big and are most efficient when loaded at > 75% of max capacity. HD’s don’t use that much power.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Mike Perkins<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a><br>MythTV Forums:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>