[mythtv-users] Anyone archiving to Blu-Ray Disks?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> For a single USB  drive, probably, but what about multiple USB drives,

It depends on the usage pattern.  If you want to play back one video
at a time, and only want multiple drives for the purposes of larger
capacity, it really doesn't matter.  If you hook up 5 drives and 4 or
idle at any given time, you're going to see pretty much the same
performance as with a single drive.  You could probably support two or
three frontends playing different videos simultaneously.  Most home
users won't need to go beyond that.  If you're trying to set up a
video-on-demand service for a large hotel, that's obviously not going
to work.

> perhaps USB tuners, an HD-PVR or two and other
> things on that USB bus at the same time?

Well, most motherboards have more than one USB controller already and
you can add more if it's a bottle neck.

> Then there's the kids plugging in iPods, mobile phones and other things just to charge them.

This has almost no effect on performance of other devices on the bus.

> That USB bus is starting to look pretty crowded and problem-prone.

All I can say is that it works for me.

Eric