[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Ben Curtis wrote:

> Thanks for the help guys.  I had considered a seperate machine to run
> mythbackend on, then a second machine that is my main server.  I  
> guess the
> backend doesn't really need the added advantage of the speed of the  
> RAID.
>
> If the backend was on a machine with an old HD, and used 100MBit  
> network
> to access a server with RAID, would that be enough speed?  At most, I
> could be capturing 2 HD streams, 2 SD streams, and then streaming 2 HD
> streams out to frontends.  That would be worst case scenario.  If not
> 100Mbit, what about Gigabit?

Go with gigabit. I don't think 100 megabit can handle 4 HD streams. I  
was getting playback stuttering with my HDHomeRun capturing 2 streams  
and playing 1 back until I upgraded it all to gigabit.