[mythtvnz] Mythtv on Server hardware

[Steve Hodge]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:

>
> > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Hoskin
> > <jonathan.hoskin at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> No, just getting a SCSI based box, but I have access to lots of 140Gb
> >>> SCSI drives and a big 14 bay array to put them in.
> >>
> >>
> >> Crikey - you must also have a lot of shares in a power company.
> >>
> >
> > 14 x 15W each = 210W worst case. It's not nothing but it's not really
> > anything to get excited about either. They'll draw about twice that
> during
> > startup though.
>
> Ouch
>
> I'm spinning 5Tb with a AMD 5050e CPU on an ASUS m/b and sit at 80W idle,
> 85 when recording a couple of channels and 95W commflagging. That includes
> the Sky box, ADSL modem and UPS...
>

Obviously if you care about a couple of hundred watts then you're better off
with SATA where the GB/W metric is about 10x better. In my case I've got a
400W plasma screen that rather makes everything else look pretty trivial.

Cheers,
Steve
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