As I've been using my newly built MythTV box and the declining cost of disk space I've been wanting to build a storage server. I'm not sure if what I'm thinking makes scene so I thought I'd ask people more learned than I about power consumption. My thought was with a media server (stuffed in a remote location in my house) running all the time, and with the PVR cards doing 99% of the recording overhead, would it be cost effective to get a low power processor, something along the lines of Via's or AMD's Geode? Then all I can find are mini-ITX boards for them, and they have maybe one or two pci slots, which wouldn't work well for a backend only mythtv box....
So, I guess my question is: Am I nuts for wanting an ITX board/proc with ~4 pci slots for PVR and the HD3000 card(s)? Am I going to save that much in power usage to make it worth while or is it minimal? I am planning to have 4 hard drives with it, and would like to get the OS on flash... if that makes a difference.... Thanks for any pointers, even if its I'm nuts... Mitch /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
