[mythtv-users] "Normal" storage requirements?

[Pierre-Olivier Bouchard]

Ben Davis wrote:
> This is more of a poll to see what kind of storage you all have on your 
> myth boxes, and also the total amount of recording hours you've got, 
> whether it be on one box or several boxes networked together.
> 
> TIVO boasts being able to record up to 80 hours.  What would it take to 
> do 80 hours on a Myth Box?  (I guess this would also depend on 
> compression methods used)
> 
With MPEG-4 320x480 High-Quality, each hour is about 440 megs. It looks 
great on my 20" TV, but a big blocky on my bigger, older 27" TV. If I 
remove the High-Quality option, each hour is 480 megs. I can get about 
30 hours of storage on my 20 Gig drive; but I record much more than that 
per week, and I'm struggling to watch it all, currently I have to move 
the biggest files to other hosts until I can watch them :( 20 gigs 
definitely isn't enough - I'll be buying something at least 80 gigs 
soon, hopefully more!


Pete