[mythtv-users] new PC build that's MythTV compatible

[James Linder]

> On 2 Nov 2020, at 10:12 pm, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> A big improvement is all the new motherboards have M-2 slots that 
>> support PCI3x4 NVMe 2280 SSD modules that support 3,500MB/s read speeds.
> 
> Actually, PCIe 4.0 is now available on the latest motherboard M.2
> slots, and there are some PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs available.  At a price,
> of course.  But the speeds are staggering.  This sort of thing in
> combination with an up to date CPU would be really good for large
> builds like kernels.  I have just updated my mother's MythTV box with
> a decent Ryzen 3 system and matching NVMe SSD and the build time on
> the TBS DVB-S2 drivers (a full V4L build) is less than a third of what
> it takes on my MythTV box.  I am now planning upgrades for my systems,
> as it is clearly worth doing now, even if you do not get high end
> hardware.  But I am waiting to see what the local prices for the new
> Ryzen releases will be before I decide - I really would like to be
> able to get PCIe 4.0.  I think the planned release date is about 5th
> Nov.

My backend (nuc gen 8)

/dev/nvme0n1p5:
 Timing cached reads:   20684 MB in  1.99 seconds = 10393.20 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 8572 MB in  3.00 seconds = 2857.14 MB/sec

James