On 11/10/05, Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proliant 8500r > Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's > 2GB Ram; > 2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC; > 1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC > 4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5); > 2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners;
The PVR250 I have will only fit in a 32Bit PCI slot, it isn't keyed for the 64Bit slots (the 64Bit slot has another keyed position near the front of the card). The PVR500 I have is keyed for a 64bit slot however and works fine in one. I have a Dell poweredge server with 1 3Ghz Xeon, 1GB of DDR2, 4x300GB SATA drives, 1PVR250, 1PVR500, and a gigabit NIC. In terms of what you are using it for, it is way overpowered. Are you planning on transcoding? that is the only thing that you might ever need that much horsepower for. Even commflagging in realtime shouldn't take that much, an epia can keep up with it, and the most commflagging you will be doing is 2 at a time unless you plan on adding more cards in the future. If you want to cut back the spec, you could reduce the memory, and cut back to 2 processors. As for HD space, it isn't that much space, but you did mention you have 1TB on fiber, so that shouldn't be an issue.
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