<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff volckaert</b> <<a href="mailto:jvolckaert@gmail.com">jvolckaert@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Proliant 8500r<br>>Quad PIII Xeon 700/2MB CPU's<br>>2GB Ram;
<br>>2 x 1000SX Fiber NIC;
<br>>1 x Dual 10/100 backup NIC<br>>4 x 73GB U160 SCSI drives, RAID (0/1/5);<br>>2 x PVR250 PAL Tuners;</blockquote></span><div><br>
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4 x 73GB would be 210GB after raid 5 right? That should be good
for 100 to 150 hours of recordings. I use a 160GB drive and can
store over 100 hours. I think I have a 2.5M bit rate.
Unless you want to archive long term, I wouldn't worry too much about
the posts saying you will need more disk. Set it up and see how
fast you go through it. 73GB scsi drives are not cheap.<br>
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Jeff<br>
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Also with that much processor power transcoding to smaller file sizes won't be a problem either.<br>