Moving to a new box. Suggestions?

[rrussell]

So, it turns out that my latest woes are related to my external USB2 hard drive.

That back-room server is looking better and better. I have an old (OLD) athlon 450 or 550-based machine just gathering dust. Anyone know how hard-and-fast the 600mhz requirement for sage is?

After all, it won't be doing playback...

[stanger89]

Pretty hard if you're planning on playback. pretty soft if you're just recording. IIRC some other members are already 400-ish machines for Sage "servers"

[Opus4]

If you were to do playback with a hardware decoder, you would still be ok. How does that athlon 450 or 550 compare to a P2? (Any equivelent speed?)

All the encoding is done in hardware, so the cpu shouldn't be too much of a problem, but I would suggest making sure the IDE interface is better than ATA/33 & can support large drives -- a $40 ATA/133 controller would help there.

- Andy

[stanger89]

Athlons are essentally just as fast as P2s/P3s, it was the K6's that were crap.

[rrussell]

Actually, it turns out it's a Pentium 133.

Looks like this box ain't gonna cut it.

But maybe it can sling files across a network OK...

[garyc]

You might want to check out this thread:

http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...&threadid=7178

Looks like a really nice (and inexpensive) client machine -- and from the feedback I've had (privately) from the poster, it's almost inaudible. I'm just now setting up my Sage machine, but plan on building one of these as a client next month.

[rrussell]

The pundit, you mean?

Actually, I suspect that if I got the hard drives (and maybe tuner too?) into another box, this machine would turn out just fine for a client. So I'm more looking for an inexpensive server at this point.