[mythtv-users] Linux wall wart pulls 5 watts - could make a great master backend

[Tom Lichti]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Ian Clark <mrrooster at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2009/2/26 Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
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>> Anyone know whether it has internal fans? I'm wondering how it would
>> be from a noise perspective?
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> It's based on an ARM core so it's unlikely it needs one, they draw very
> little power even running at that speed.
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> If I'm reading the datasheet correctly it looks like the SOC they're using
> uses a little over 2W in total when running at 1.2G, half of that being the
> core, half being the rest of the stuff. That's easy to dissipate in a plug
> sized device. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ian

I was thinking about this thing last night, and I don't think I'd want
it as a master backend, at least in my case, because my MySQL db is on
the master, and I doubt this thing could carry the load of the DB,
along with everything else it would need to do. It could slot into my
setup very easily, since my master has two HDHR's on it, and two
PVR-x50's that I will be de-comming soon, and uses a couple of NAS
servers for disk.

Tom