| Stephen Gran on 8 Feb 2007 23:41:28 -0000 |
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:36:14PM -0500, David Colon said: > I asked for feedback on Mythtv during last night's meeting but no one > present had any experience. I was encouraged to post to the list. > > That brings me here. I've been following Mythtv for a while now but > never bought all of the pieces to the puzzle to build my own system. > I'm finally ready to begin. I'd like to start off with one high > definition front end and a back end with a large amount of disk space. That is exactly what I use. > For the back end, I'm thinking of building a lower end system that can > do SATA RAID. I'd load it up with a bunch of 500 gig SATA drives and > setup a RAID 5 array to give me some redundancy in the event of a disk > failure. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions or recommendations for setting > up a high def front end? It should have a high "WAF" factor. I'm not sure what WAF is, but I use a pentiumM on a micro atx board in a silverstone case[0]. Very nice looking, and very quiet. You can go completely diskless in the front end machine, although I haven't yet. [0] http://www.silverstonetek.com/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | I was in Vegas last week. I was at the | | steve@lobefin.net | roulette table, having a lengthy | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | argument about what I considered an Odd | | | number. -- Steven Wright | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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