[Cialug] Poweredge 2950 oh....crap

[Justin Richeson]

Agreed.  Plus handling transcoding?  Plus trying to pipe all access to
storage and the tuner (HDHomeRun) over the ethernet...which on the PI is on
USB.  Too much.  It works great for a front-end, or accessing local media,
but not as a full PLEX server handling a household.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:53 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Justin Richeson wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure if that would suite my needs, but thanks for the idea....
> > > I'mplanning on running a Plex or Emby media server with DVR Live TV so
> > > it hasto be on-network to connect to my tuner.
> > >
> > For that, all you need is a $35 PI!!! BONUS - really power stingy, runs a
> > 2A microUSB PS.
>
>
> A Pi is probably going to suck as a DVR, they just don't have the I/O to
> sling the data around fast enough. Raspberry Pis are great, I use them for
> a lot of stuff but they aren't suited for everything.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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