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Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:52 amby litbea
Hi all,
I'm a recently user of Serviio, running the Windows version to stream content to a Samsung C650 TV. I'm planning to build a PC to switch off my main PC when not necessary. What I'm wondering is what CPU is enough to transcode content: will an Atom CPU be enough? I can grab some old Pentium M and Pentium 4 notebooks, but I'm not sure if they consume too much energy without having any CPU advantage in using Servvio.
Regards,
Litbea
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:45 amby moltra
What you might want to do is setup a virtual PC using different processors configurations and memory configurations and try some of the movies that you want to watch and see how the various Virtual machines respond. I know we have had users do that with new smaller NAS's and routers/media servers.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:04 pmby Cerberus
personaly im about to buy one of these ( the top spec ) and install either linux or WHS on it to run as media server.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:03 pmby litbea
The link has no inoformation. What hardware were you looking at?
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:05 pmby Cerberus
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:14 pmby litbea
well, I think that one plays in another league
I'm trying to keep costs down, both in equipment and electricity bill.
Cerberus wrote:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fractal-Design-4TB-Network-Storage-NAS-Media-Server-PC-/120710400270?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item1c1ae6890e
ah sry corrected link they moved it on me.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:15 pmby litbea
I'm already testing a Acer Travelmate 380 series notebook (Pentium M 725) and it runs Serviio very well (at least 720p movies) in Windows. I'll try Linux on it and maybe an Atom later. If I have time, I'll post my conclusions. I need to find the watt-meter...
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:32 pmby Cerberus
litbea wrote:well, I think that one plays in another league
I'm trying to keep costs down, both in equipment and electricity bill.
Cerberus wrote:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fractal-Design-4TB-Network-Storage-NAS-Media-Server-PC-/120710400270?pt=UK_Computing_DesktopPCs&hash=item1c1ae6890e
ah sry corrected link they moved it on me.
oh yer not cheap but because it runs on a solid state drive mean electric usage is alot less, spec im getting is about £1500 (10tb) but u can get the basic version for £524 (2tb) and expand it as u require
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:22 pmby NX3
I've got a Intel Atom self built NAS ;
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... 510mo.htmlIt has a Intel® Atom™ Processor D510 (1M Cache, 1.66 GHz), dual core but supports hyper threading so seen as 4 cores. I use serviio on ubuntu, to several devices, some transcoding and all works very well.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:15 amby litbea
I link you the first chapter of my analysis (it's my first hardware article, please don't be very severe...):
http://trueca.blogspot.com/2011/08/buil ... lna-i.htmlStay tuned!
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:08 amby moltra
It looks like it is going to be a great review. I had no problems understanding it. There was a couple of small editorial errors but nothing major. Keep us informed when you update it again.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:18 amby litbea
chapter two:
http://trueca.blogspot.com/2011/08/buil ... specs.htmlFinally I didn't test the Pentium 4, I think there's no point in it. That leave us with Atom and Pentium M. Which one do you think is better?
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:05 amby moltra
Can't wait to see the results. I have an aspire one 150 that I am trying to revive from bios failure. I am hoping that it will have enough power to run serviio.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:44 amby litbea
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:31 amby moltra
Looks good, I need to get my Aspire One 150 working and run the same benchmarks on it. Thanks for the reference videos and the reference programs.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:45 amby litbea
Great moltra, that way we can compare our results!
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:07 pmby Illico
Thanks for your reporting.
I think tonight, I'll install
Networkx tool for Speed Meter option...thks.
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:50 amby litbea
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Sun Aug 07, 2011 3:18 pmby litbea
Sorry guys, but I have had to change the graphics as they weren't been shown correctly. Plain images now. And I forgot to include the watts graph on part IV.
Now, part V:
http://trueca.blogspot.com/2011/08/buil ... lna-v.html
Re: Atom/Pentium M/Pentium 4 for DIY NAS?
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Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:18 pmby moltra
very surprising. I will have to think again about using the Aspire one 150.