[mythtv-users] dreaming hardware configuration

[nate s]

Lol, yeah but it is fun to dream...

And if I do win the lottery, (despite the fact that I don't play,) I
will send pics.

-Nate


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 05:20:53 -0500, Jack Trout <witmore1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> yeah, man when you win the lottery let us know I wanna see pics
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> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 19:56:41 +1000, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Geeeeez.  You took the limitless caash thing a little too far :P
> >
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> >
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:03:24 -0800, nate s <nate.strickland at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Well if money was no object...
> > >
> > > My setup would be very similar to Ya-Fan Li's, execpt I would go with
> > > 15k rpm scsi drives such as these,
> > > http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-111-138&depa=1,
> > > and I'd have a lot of them, maybe 40 or so, set up in a raid 5 array
> > > (with hardware raid controllers, of course)  Also, I'd run 10GbE fiber
> > > to the backend, as I see no reason why not to with limitless cash.
> > >
> > > I'd also get some of those HDTV DTV recievers with firewire out and
> > > figure out a way to get mythtv to use it as input.  (and, if I can't
> > > figure it out I could always hire a team of people to do so with
> > > unlimited money :)  )
> > >
> > > I'd also have two slave backends, one for dedicated transcoding, and
> > > another for dedicated commercial flagging.
> > >
> > > My hdtvs would all have DVI and/or VGA inputs, so outputting to them
> > > would not be a problem.  I'd prolly go with something like an epia to
> > > get it diskless, fanless, and very small, most likely with no heat
> > > pipes required.  Or, alternatively, I might have one or two of the
> > > frontends be fully functional nix boxes, in addition to a froentend,
> > > and use an athlon xp-m or pentium m and put a good gfx card in, with a
> > > quiet hard disk, and lots of heatpipes.
> > >
> > > -Nate
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 06:37:56 +0000, Greg Cope <gregcope at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:41:09 +1000, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > How long would it take to perform a network boot?
> > > >
> > > > Properly set up it is quite quick, not much slower than off disk.
> > > >
> > > > Greg
> > > >
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