[mythtv] Myth and PC without harddisk

Milos Prudek prudek at bvx.cz
Mon Jun 23 17:33:20 EDT 2003


Hi all,

Is it feasible and reasonable to build a MythTV PC without hard disk, 
but with a 100Mbit switched ethernet connection to a fileserver ?

Such PC would contain a flash RAM card (emulated harddisk), 128MB or 
larger, to boot into Linux as fast as possible, but it would mount 
storage from network, probably via SMB.

Why omit hard disk?

- save money (admittedly not much)
- quiet operation (although current hard disks are very quiet)
- save power (hard disk consumes some electricity)
- less fragile (PC can be dropped)
- less heat generated, (computer fan may rotate more slowly)

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