[mythtv-users] hdtv file size?

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Jan 31 18:03:28 UTC 2006


On Monday 30 January 2006 22:57, kim gross wrote:
> Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >On Monday 30 January 2006 09:08, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >> have a RAID 5 (using mdadm) with 3 300gig drives giving me 600gigs, cost
> >>$360 for the drives (120 each). Gives me a lot of  recording time,
> >>especially after I cut the commercials out.
> >
> >Muahahaha! I just got a *sweet* deal on eight 250GB SATA drives ($40 ea).
> > I'm putting 'em all on a 3Ware Escalade 9500s-8, set up in a hardware
> > RAID5 w/a hot spare. To make it even more fun, that'll be 1.5TB of fairly
> > redundant storage fully dedicated to Myth, because the OS is going on a
> > 4-drive RAID10 array... =)
>
> You wouldn't be able to get any more of those would you???

Nope, one-time thing. The drives are used pulls (about a year old, two years 
of warranty left) from a storage server at work (being replaced w/400GB 
drives). There were 24 such drives, but we all snatched 'em up pretty 
quick. :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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