[mythtv-users] A Myther can dream, right?

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 18 00:07:11 UTC 2014


Or you can go for the cheap/home 36TB Mini ITX version......about $2k-$3k

DS380 Almost Mini ITX Case
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452

ECS H61H2-MV LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI Micro DTX Mobo
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_Detail.aspx?DetailID=1427&CategoryID=1&MenuID=103&LanID=0

8 x 6TB Red Drives for RAID 6 providing 36TB for Library
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810&utm_source=WD%20Red%20redirect&utm_medium=collateral&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=product#tab3

4 x 1TB Seagate Constellation 2.5" Drives for boot/transcoding
space/myth TV recording
http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/constellation/?sku=ST91000640NS

TBS 4 Channel DVB-S2 or DVB-T2 receiver card depending on your setup.
http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6985-dvb-s2-quad-tuner-pcie-card.html
or
http://www.amazon.co.uk/PCI-E-DVB-T2-Definition-Digital-Receiver/dp/B006MTN32A

LSI Raid Controller
http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9211-8i.aspx

Intel 3770 Processor with onboard GPU (Overkill for transcoding)
http://ark.intel.com/products/65719/Intel-Core-i7-3770-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz


Memory/PSU other incidentals.........



A 36TB server with Quad Tuner in a MINI ITX size box.


On 17 August 2014 22:52, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Andrew Scagnelli
> <andrew.scagnelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That comes to something like 30,000 hours of uncompressed, 1080p
>> recordings (assuming 9GB/hour), or about 3 1/3 full years of nonstop
>> recording.
>
>
> Combine that with a handful of tuners and a keyword searching closed-caption
> scanning system and it would be a pop culture/political analysts dream.
>
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