On 11/10/05, Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Would the following be acceptable as a media/tuner backend server multiple > (4 or more) frontends... > > Proliant 8500r > Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's > 2GB Ram; > 2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC; > 1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC > 4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5); > 2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners; > > All PCI slots are 64bit and the NIC's will be in 66mhz slots.
are you planning on transcoding or using software capture cards? if not i would say that this is a little overpowered. for the hardware encoder like pvr-x50 you definitely don't need much cpu on the backend. and for SDTV you won't be seeing more than 12Mbit/s so running 4 frontends on a 100Mbit connection is doable with plenty of headroom left over. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
