[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Fri Feb 15 04:52:52 UTC 2008


Ben Curtis wrote:
> Thanks for the help guys.  I had considered a seperate machine to run
> mythbackend on, then a second machine that is my main server.  I guess the
> backend doesn't really need the added advantage of the speed of the RAID.
>
> If the backend was on a machine with an old HD, and used 100MBit network
> to access a server with RAID, would that be enough speed?  At most, I
> could be capturing 2 HD streams, 2 SD streams, and then streaming 2 HD
> streams out to frontends.  That would be worst case scenario.  If not
> 100Mbit, what about Gigabit?
>
>
> Ben
>   
How about a PCI expansion chassis?  One card on your motherboard, 7-13 
pci slots on the chassis.  Available surplus too.


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