[mythtv-users] Intel Atom backend?

[Christopher Sean Hilton]

The hard drive in my backend is starting to die. I'm plan to replace
with a cold spare tonight. I'd like to replace it with an SSD but the
motherboard in my backend is so old that SSD is unsupported. Thus, I'm
considering an Intel Atom Motherboard for use as a backend. I'm in New
England so electricity is pretty expensive. A low power motherboard is
almost a must. 

My tuners are: An HD-PVR with about 250 channels and a pair of Silicon
Dust HD Homerun primes, one carries about 30 channels from my naked
cable feed and the other carries about 5 channels from my antenna. 

My current backend runs on a positively ancient AMD CPU. It's first or
second gen amd64. The only video processing I do is commercial
flagging. It would be nice to do more. Specifically I'd like to
transcode anything that comes in into a format suitable for Apple TV 2
/ iPad. I don't have to do that transcoding on the backend. I'm handy
with ssh and shell so transcoding the output on my MacPro would be all
that hard. That said, I'm more than willing to admit that it would be
simpler if I could make it happen directly on the backend.

Am I going to be happy with the Atom or disappointed?

Can I get a Core i3, i5, or i7 to do this job with really low? <= 40
watts idle, 100 loaded?

-- 
Chris

      __o          "All I was trying to do was get home from work."
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Christopher Sean Hilton                    [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]
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