[mythtv-users] Silent slave backend

[Andre]

When my re-decorating is finished I will need to re-organise my MythTV system. I am considering moving the master backend (and storage) such that it will have only DVBT directly installed, I will then need a slave backend for 2xDVBS2 in what will then be a bedroom.

I have a server grade Atom motherboard (which is useless as a server btw) but is totally silent and has a PCIex4 slot which would be fine for my dual DVBS2 card.

Is anyone running an Atom board as a slave backend?

I commonly record 5 or 6 simultaneous HD streams from two DVBS2 tuners during programme overlaps but as this would be netbooted with NFS storage I'm thinking it's CPU demands _should_ be very light, all re-encoding (commflagging doesn't work well here so I don't use it) would be done on the quad 2.4GHz C2D backend with local storage. I currently have a netbooted frontend but the boot image is on SSD so that is very fast and I suspect a second (or more) netbooted system would be little extra load.

Andre