[mythtv-users] Acer Aspire Revo R3610 as a backend

[Greg Cope]

2010/1/25 Ian Oliver <lists at foxhill.co.uk>:
> In article <FB7D596A-E3BA-4781-BF16-608A87C1CF94 at gmail.com>, Greg Cope
> wrote:
>> One thing that is important is to have more than one disk to avoid
>> canning a single disk.
>
> I could put some stuff onto my 2.7TB server, but that'll be over
> samba/nfs. Maybe eSata is better.

Should not be a problem.

>> Can see a problem with your plan bar finding enough to record that much.
>
> Well, quite! Not sure how well live TV will work. Hopefully, it will share
> the tuners, but I'm not sure. Having a tuner per mux should removing a lot
> of the tuning delay.

I have no problem with Live TV on my FEBE.  Live TV is easier on the
host as most of the video file would be in the buffer cache (memory)
so would not need to be read from disk - saving IO.  On mine making
four recordings and watching a fourth is probably the worst I can do
to it.   Even then it is fine.

> I still have the sneaky feeling that I ought to splash the cash for a
> proper be machine, but it's finding something low power enough.

You could always ebay it if not happy!  I'd probably buy it!

Greg