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Hi MythTV experts<br>
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I am updating the wiki and wondering about the Balanced Disk I/O
setting.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Balanced_Disk_I.2FO">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Storage_Groups#Balanced_Disk_I.2FO</a><br>
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The above page recommends if you are doing more than 2 recordings at
once to use this setting to get recordings put on separate file
systems to avoid buffer overruns. I am thinking of changing that
recommendation.<br>
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A quick back of the envelope calculation tells me that I could
record some 50 HD programs at the same time on one disk drive, based
on 1 Gb/sec transfer rate and 8 GB per hour on each HD recording.<br>
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Clearly 50 at a time is theoretical and unlikely because it would be
affected by seek times. However HD programs vary from 3 GB to 8 GB
per hour which means even more than 50 at the same time. Also
drives are rated at 6 Gb/sec which means 300 HD recordings at the
same time(!).<br>
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You could surely record at least 10 HD programs at the same time or
maybe many more, so unless you have a very unusual situation it
seems that you need not concern yourself about hard disk
performance.<br>
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I have 6 tuners and have never had a disk performance problem, even
while watching at the same time as recording, but I have probably
not recorded 6 channels at once.<br>
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Does anybody have an opinion on this?<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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