[mythtv-users] How many PVR cards can one system take?

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> On 11/05/2006 03:00 AM, Chris Isip wrote:
>> I have 2 PVR 250 cards happily running in a Soyo KT400 with Athlon
>> 2400 XP.  I have a spare pvr 500 which I can put in this box.  I
>> wonder if anybody has created a 4 tuner setup.
>
> Yep.

Here too, 4 PVR-150s

>
>> I have a couple of hard drives in LVM with ext3 on them.  Both
>> harddrives are ATA 100.   I wonder if 4 simultaneous recordings will
>> be too much for the hard drives to handle.
>
> Nope.

Agreed. I'm using a RAID-0 to increase throughput, but I really don't  
think it's necessary.

>
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Have recorded 4 shows at once while doing near-real-time commflagging
> and watching another (recorded) show.  No fancy RAID or anything, just
> an LVM with ext3.

I did have to tweak the PCI latency in order for this sort of thing  
to work without glitches in the recordings, but it does work fine now.