[mythtv] Re: New idea for storing recordings to disks

[Tony Lill]

Unit3 <unit3 at demoni.ca> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 03:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> Bigger disks are even cheaper per gigabyte! And they have better
>> power and space density too.
>
> There's really a price/performance point for this, though, like anything
> else. Right now it seems like 120GB SATA drives are the point, if you
> get larger you start paying more per MB again. That always increases
> with time though. ;)

I just bought a 320Gb disk for $200 canadian (with rebate). If you
wait for bargains, it looks like you can buy a gig for 60 - 70 cents
these day, vs a buck a year or so ago. WD Caviar with 8M cache, only
PATA, but the premium for SATA seems to be only aroud 20 bucks these
days.
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