[mythtv-users] Dell PowerEdge 2550 1 GHz as dedicated backend/storage..?
Mark A. Hoover
mahoover at ispaceonline.org
Tue Nov 20 03:48:05 UTC 2007
> ------------------------------
> From: Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dell PowerEdge 2550 1 GHz as dedicated
> backend/storage..?
>>
>> I think commflagging and definately transcoding will take *forever* on
>> this box. That's a pretty old box. In my opinoin, you'd be better off
>> buying newer hardware with a much faster CPU.
>
> You could set up your frontend as a slave backend with no tuners. The master
> backend (running on a slower box) could pass off CPU-intensive jobs to the
> slave backend. (For me, commercial flagging would be the main CPU-intensive
> job. Lossless transcoding (the only kind I let MythTV do) is mainly
> I/O-intensive and would best be run on the backend.)
I've got a Dell Poweredge 500SC with a 1133MHz PIII, 512MB of
RAM, and a dual tuner PVR-500 card in it. It acts as a dedicated
backend/storage for my MythTV setup and performs fine. I let it handle
all the transcoding and commflagging. I haven't actually timed either,
but it finishes in what I consider reasonable time. Especially when you
consider most of what I record I'm not watching immediately after it
finishes recording. This is using a single 320GB Western Digital IDE hard
drive.
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