<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 29, 2019, at 4:09 AM, James Linder <<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" class="">jam@tigger.ws</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 29 Dec 2019, at 1:26 pm, <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org" class="">mythtv-users-request@mythtv.org</a> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">My 10 year old Macmini/HDHR running Ubuntu Myth front/backend is <br class="">having issues. I'm looking for a very low cost replacement. I build <br class="">the trunk frequently, and want the standard frontend not Kodi. The Mac <br class="">has an old Nvida GPU which worked well for years, and I really want <br class="">something with a GPU that Myth supports.<br class=""><br class="">From what I read there is no GPU support on the PI4, which other than <br class="">would be a nice price point.<br class=""><br class="">I know a NUC would work, but they start getting pricey once <br class="">configured, and its not clear to me what the cheapest one without <br class="">media format limitations is. I know there are other boxes in similar <br class="">form factor, but don't know if there is a better value than a NUC.<br class=""><br class="">Storage is not an issue, I already use a large USB disk for both root <br class="">and the media on the mini.<br class=""><br class="">It seems like even cheap phone/tablet SOCs have better GPUs than the <br class="">old Nvidia.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>I've done a lot of testing recently. The RPi4 is an excellent backend <br class="">with HDHR Quatro as a networked tuner. That gives you 4 tuners and the <br class="">CPU horsepower to handle the recording using a USB3 SATA SSD or even <br class="">hard drive.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I had grave issues using USB3 and SSD on RaPi4<br class="">Someone here (maybe Stephen) pointed out the myrid of USB-SATA-RaPi problems<br class="">But seeed studio just junk-mailed me with a SATA hat for RaPi that looks very interesting<br class="">Also the rock pi looks interesting<br class=""><br class="">James<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I read an article about issues with the USB3 to SATA adapters and it gave a list of those that did all the commands right. So I bought one on the list. Since RPi4 will not boot from USB, I have the boot partition on the microSD and the rootfs on the SATA SSD. It has worked great and I’ve done lots of recordings.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><h1 id="title" class="a-spacing-none a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0px !important; line-height: 1.3 !important;"><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://StarTech.com" class="">StarTech.com</a> SATA to USB Cable - USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer (USB3S2SAT3CB)</span></h1><div class=""><span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-size: 14px;">Jim A</span></div><div class=""><span class="a-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important; font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>