[mythtv-users] Quiet HDs?

[Michael T. Dean]

Ben Edwards wrote:

>On 29/11/05, Bertrand <bertrandmuscle at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>SpinPoints DO look pretty good! Thanks for that. Can't seem to find the
>>SATA II units, but I guess I'll go for the PATA. Was worried about speed
>>with HDTV and all..
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>I've done a fair amount of Mini DV video editing.  A couple of yeards
>ago a decent 7200 spin speed drive could deliver 3 files (during real
>time rendering).  How many times greater are HDTV streams than DVB
>streams?  Basicaly if you know the sustained transfur rate of the
>drive and the bandwidth of the HDTV stream you shuold be able to work
>this out.
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HDTV is actually smaller than DV.  Full NTSC/PAL resolution DV is about 
12GB/hr.  HDTV is between about 4 and 10GiB/hr (probably averaging about 
7GiB/hr).

Mike