[mythtv-users] Max number of recording cards in one backend?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Neale Swinnerton wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Anyone know how many recording cards could I reasonably expect to be able
>to run in the same backend? Obviously this is dependent on the bitrates
>selected, I guess that the PCI bus would eventually be saturated. I'd be
>recording to disks installed in the same machine.
>
>A bit of Googling tells me that the theorectical max bandwidth of a PCI
>bus is around 127Mbit/s, but there's a lot of overhead in there.
>
>So what's a 'reasonable' number, can I get away with 3xDVB-T + 1xPVR-250 ?
>  
>
I thought there was an article on some hardware website recently that 
had a system with at least 5 PVR-500s (10 tuners) IIRC.

Kevin