[mythtv-users] Best Hardware

[Brian Wood]

On May 9, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:00 -0700, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>> Basic setup:
>>> 3.4 +/- P4 OR Duel Xeon (64bit)
>>> SATA HDDs (4-6 drives, all 300G+)
>>
>> Out of curiosity (since other people have mentioned similar
>> storage for their mythtv machines), what does one do with upwards
>> of 1 terabyte of storage for a mythtv box? I mean, I realize that
>> HD needs a lot of space, but with that much space you could
>> easily store 100+ hours of HDTV. Why? Are you guys collecting
>> entire shows by the season, do you not watch anything for 3
>> months at a time and then have a weeklong marathon session, or
>> is most of the storage used for non-mythtv purposes?
>> Just curious.
>
> I can't answer for anyone else but it seems to me from reading a  
> lot of
> threads around here that there are two types of people - those who  
> watch
> and discard and those who hoard. And the majority of myth users are in
> the latter camp!


I certainly am. I have a TB of storage and have only about 200GB free  
at the moment, and that is all SD content !!

Just the packrat instinct in me I guess, or perhaps I remember when I  
got home after more than 6 months in a hospital and couldn't do much  
more than read and watch TV for a while, sure wish I had had that  
content then.