<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 14, 2008, at 4:35 AM, Rafael Moslin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">I'm finding it difficult to argue against any of your points! Though I must disagree when you say that I'm running out of space because I'm recording more, well apart from the obvious element of that statement my comments where more aimed at the move here (UK) to increasing amounts of HD content. These recordings are taking up the additional space with an 800% increase per hour in storage requirements over the SD DVB-T mpeg2 streams. My original 1TB of space served me well running at about a constant 70% utilisation for well over a year before HD happened.<br> <br>You are so right about the price of storage being so cheap (500GB Samsung Spinpoint £38, 1TB £69) but my issue is more with the greening element as space, power consumption and the noise of extra drives being the issue rather than the cost, and as you say using DL DVD's is not exactly cost effective or convenient.<br> <br>It's my own fault really, I will insist on keeping and re-watching every episode of Family Guy, Skins, Shameless, Dr Who, ST TNG...<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>The idea is that you replace your old not-as-efficient smaller drives with a single larger one. If you've currently got 1TB spread over 2-3 drives, replace them all with a 1.5TB drive for under $200US. I've got 2.5TB of storage (across 3 drives) and I have about 4 months of recordings - and even more now that I'm using h.264 capture.<div><div><br><div>1.5TB drive is $179.99 on NewEgg this morning.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4py58q">http://tinyurl.com/4py58q</a></b><br></span></div><div>Promo Code: EMCBABEBG</div><div><br></div><div>-Brad</div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>