[mythtv-users] Backend machine - Acer Altos G540 Std Server?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Thomas Boehm
<mythtv-users at lists.boehmi.net>wrote:

> Nick Rout wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience with this or similar machine
> > http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.asp?id=624082220 ? Intended use is as a
> > backend using HDHR tuners.
> >
> > Size (WxDxH)mm: 445 (H) x 212 (W) x 550 (D) mm
> > Weight (Est): 32 kg
> > Processor: Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5420
> > Processor Speed: 2.5GHz
> > RAM: 4GB
> > Hard Drive:3x 75GB (8 hard drive slots altogether)
> > DVD-RW
> > SAS
> >
> >
> > I am guessing the CPU and RAM will be sufficient. My main concerns are
> > power consumption, heat and noise. I will be stuffing it full of 8 x 2
> > to 3 tb hard drives.
>
> This machine will be "overkill" if you don't do a lot of transcoding. I
> recently migrated my backend to a HP Microserver N54L, which uses about
> ~30W and runs without any problem for about two months now. I have two
> HDHR and record up to 2 recordings per tuner and the server does the
> occasional transcoding with HandBrake.
>

Thanks everyone, I think I have been put off this monster in favour of
something more modern and power friendly. I'll probably go for a fractal
design 304 case (6 HDs, takes a mini-itx motherboard) or a HP Microserver.
My only concern about the latter is the power for transcoding/HLS but maybe
I don't need that anyway.

And yeah, hardware is expensive here (NZ). Galling considering we have been
pegging .80US for some time, and are a similar distance from Asia where
they make it all.

Cheers.

Under the stairs may make me relatively unworried about noise, but it is a
small space and no ventilation, so low power is the way to go.
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