[mythtv-users] Re-doing my backend

[R. G. Newbury]

David Frascone wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 5:56 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> 
>> David Frascone wrote:
>>> Finally, my last question.
>>
>>>
>>> So -- to go greener, I'd like to move to a commodity motherboard (just
>>> depricated one moving to an iMac), in a huge rackmount case.
>>>
>>> Here are the questions:
>>>

>>> Can a normal 2.4Ghz CPU handle the job of those two file servers?
>>  (Video
>>> traffic + room to spare for other low cpu things)?  Keep in mind, I have
>> 2
>>> hd tuners, and 4 sd tuners.  Plus, it has to handle serving filesystems
>> and
>>> video traffic to two dedicated front ends.

>> I'm running an Asus P5L-MX motherboard with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo chip as
>> a combined BE/FE, with one PVR500 and an HDHomeRun for 4 tuners. I have
>> recorded 4 streams, while watching a recorded program, while also ssh'd
>> in and COMPILING stuff....All on about (i'm guessing) 65 watts. The LCD
>> tv is about twice that.
>>>>
> 
> Hmm . . Mine is a 2.2 or so Ghz P4 -- think it can keep up?

Yes, I think so. You are doing a backend only setup. Those tuners all 
feed a digital stream to the hard drives: no decoding for viewing.
Although it sounded like you were going to change your motherboard, 
which was why I commented about the Core 2 Duo.

Geoff