[mythtv-users] How much storage do you have for MythTV?

Dave Jones david.l.jones at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 19:02:47 UTC 2006


I think the ubiquitous answer is "not enough."

I've gotten by using old hard drives that I put into an LVM drive. Terrible
for data security, but if it goes bad, oh well.

On 1/23/06, Jake <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/23/06, Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> says:
> > > My MythTV box is now at around 600gb and that seems like just about
> > > enough storage for me for now with non-HD recordings,
> >
> > Indeed. A FireWire capture of a non-HDTV cable channel takes about
> > 19MB/minute. 600GB = 526 hours. HDTV takes up to sevenfold more space
>
> well, for tv we have about 660GB here and we're running PVR-500's so
> we can record about 330 hours.  believe me, without autoexpire we
> would be screwed.  a program goes from being recorded to autoexpiring
> in about 2 weeks so litterally we record about 330 hours of tv every 2
> weeks.
>
> this is managable as i live in a townhouse with 3 other guys and
> basically everyone knows that they should watch what they want to
> watch before it's gone.  of course we all know that the cable stuff
> will probably get rerecorded after the autoexpire so that can be
> watched in leisure but the network stuff i watch pretty religiously on
> the weekends.
>
> we also record every football, basketball (both college and pro for
> those), baseball and hockey game we get so that is a large portion of
> our tv though we do record quite a few sitcoms and miscellaneous.
>
> all in all our setup works pretty good.
>
> in addition to the tv we also have about 3TB for dvd-rips and random
> movies.  this is disk spread around the house and all of it is
> completely backed up.  we don't care if we lose the tv but the movies
> can not be lost.
>
> > I'm already there! That ~$1100 figure I mentioned earlier for my
> > HD-capable MythTV box didn't include the $2100 I paid for an Infrant
> > ReadyNAS 600 with 2TB in RAID 0 that I'm solely dedicating to MythTV.
>
> geeez, $2100 for only 2TB seems rediculous but i guess you get a small
> form factor and lower power consumption out of a NAS (i assume).
> otherwise, we just put our hard drives in existing computers, though
> we have thought of building a fileserver with multiple TB in it.  most
> of our drives are 250GB gotten for under $100 but i think we have a
> few 400GB drives around.
>
> can't wait to hear what everyone else has.
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