[mythtv-users] Best Hardware

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:00 -0700, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> >Basic setup:
> >3.4 +/- P4 OR Duel Xeon (64bit)
> >SATA HDDs (4-6 drives, all 300G+)
> 
> Out of curiosity (since other people have mentioned similar
> storage for their mythtv machines), what does one do with upwards
> of 1 terabyte of storage for a mythtv box? I mean, I realize that
> HD needs a lot of space, but with that much space you could
> easily store 100+ hours of HDTV. Why? Are you guys collecting
> entire shows by the season, do you not watch anything for 3
> months at a time and then have a weeklong marathon session, or
> is most of the storage used for non-mythtv purposes?
> Just curious.

I can't answer for anyone else but it seems to me from reading a lot of
threads around here that there are two types of people - those who watch
and discard and those who hoard. And the majority of myth users are in
the latter camp!