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