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Re:PC obsolescence is obsolete by rogerbinns on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @01:16PM (#4413623)
You don't need need memory or CPU power for streaming or backups, unless you are doing on the fly transcoding. You do need storage connectivity but even USB2 has a theoretical throughput of 60 megabytes per second while you'll get practical throughput of ~35 megabytes per second on gigabit ethernet.

The only time I saw my ~2005 era system have non-trivial CPU usage was when doing encryption, and even then it would peak at around 25% of CPU.

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Re:PC obsolescence is obsolete by freehunter on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @03:50PM (#4414417)
Encryption and compression are what the CPU and memory are for. The video card is for transcoding to deliver to the target system. It's mainly just a re-used system, but you wouldn't be able to do it with a PII and 64MB of RAM.
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