[mythtv-users] Best settings for transcoding HD content to save space?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
<gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> ....
>> But it's easy to find 3TB HDDs for $99.99 (or approximately $0.033/GB).
>
> And I just happened to see that a local retailer is selling
> 4TB HDDs for $129 (after rebate), or $.03225/GB.
>
> The one sure thing about disk prices is that absence of
> another flood in Thailand (and lack of adequate preparation
> for sourcing of the head assemblies), the prices will go down
> in the future.

And the other sure things about disks is that regardless of how much
storage capacity they have, sooner or later, they'll be full.

I once had a guy tell me I'd never fill my new 30MB disk...

Eric