[mythtv-users] OT: Just for fun - place your bets - 4XHD HDHR recording

[David Herman]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Dave Richardson <mythtv[at]derdev.com>
wrote:
> Since the list's tone has been a little cranky lately, I thought I'd have
> fun with my system tonight.
>
> In one hour from now, I'm going to simultaneously capture 4 HD QAM streams

> using two 2-tuner HDHomeruns to a single backend. �(ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX -
> one hour segments)
>
> Place your bets, will I ...
>
> 1) Crash the backend ugly (I took a database backup)
> 2) Get Mangled recordings (1 or more, sync issues, whatever)
> 3) Perfection - all recordings are ok.
>

I have a similar setup (but I also have a HDPVR). I had to have to
distribute the IO better in order to handle it. I have 3 mounted TB drives
(7200RPM) that I use  for recordings only.
My Backend also has a Q6600 with 2GB of RAM. It could handle 4 HD Homerun
recodings plus the HDPVR, but any recording playback off my backend would
cause #2 to happen (This is purely an IO issue).

Dave


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--Dave
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