On Saturday 22 September 2007 15:12:23 Paul wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:53 +0100, John Bowden wrote: > > On Friday 21 September 2007 11:39:03 Jim Wildman wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, John Bowden wrote: > > > > (docs, music and DVD ) for all of these machines, print server, (two > > > > ink-jets), mail server and later on a myth tv set up. Would SAMBA be > > > > the best option for the file and print serving ? > > > > > > You realize the mythtv setup (if this machine is going to be the > > > 'backend') really should be on a separate box? > > > > I was hoping a 2.6 gHz 32bit Athlon with 3Gb of ram would handle Myth and > > the file storage. > > It depends on your setup ... if you have a capture card that does Mpeg > encoding then CPU power is not an issue. I have an 800Mhz Athlon XP > (under clocked) system running a backend. The issue usually is if the > box can keep up with the disk IO doing recording and streaming at the > same time. I have two drives in the box, one for the OS and another for > storing the video. The system does fine streaming to a front end at the > same time it's recording std cable TV. The O/S will be on its own drive on the non raid IDE. I will look around for a high end dual tunner dab card. > > Adding file services with lots of IO might cause problems, it depends on > the exact load your putting on it, adding RAM and using RAID 01 > (mirrored and striped) may work. If you had issues, build a cheap > sempon system to do the MythTV duties may be cheaper than making the > server capable of doing both. Can do if the machine struggles, but I wont be writing much from the network to it while I watch TV. may be an odd file and recording another TV channel at the most. Network backups can be set up to run when the machine is idle. > > One note is RAID 1 is slower at writing that a single drive, but usually > faster at reading. > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240