[ale] Good machine for recording ?

[Derek Atkins]

Byron Jeff <byronjeff at clayton.edu> writes:

> It's overkill with a HDHomerun as hardware encoding is done on the
> HDHomerun.
>
> I currently have two HDHomerun Primes recording to a Dell PowerEdge 830. It
> has a 3.0 Ghz Pentium D processor and 2GB of ram. I added a SSD for the
> boot disk and a 5 TB video drive for MythTV. Works like a champ.

Talk about over-powered!   I have 2 HDHomeRuns (so 4 feeds) that are
recording to an ARM Wandboard Quad with a 2TB SATA disk!   Running MythTV.

> So you'll have absolutely no problem with a I5 and a modern MB.

All overkill for recording with an HDHR.

> BAJ

-derek

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