[mythtv-users] How many simultaneous recordings on one drive?
Kris B.
krisbee at krisbee.com
Wed Sep 28 16:19:14 UTC 2011
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:11 PM, "Eric Sharkey"
<eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Kris B. <krisbee at krisbee.com> wrote:
> > Sorry for the simple question, but the archives for the answers seem to
> > have everyone talking about RAID setups, and my setup is much simpler
> > than that.
> >
> > I have an EIDE drive that holds the OS, and a 2tb 5400gb green drive on
> > SATA (1.5 setting due to older motherboard).
>
> A drive like that should handle about 75MB/s. A typical HD recording
> from cable is about 5GB/hour, which works out to less than 2MB/s.
>
> I think you'll be fine.
>
> Eric
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Fantastic. And to answer the other post, the database/OS/everything
else runs on the EIDE drive/channel, so they are seperated :) The myth
drive serves only for myth and general, residual storage for content
that is either in "deep freeze" or to stream.
Thanks again! Looks like I just have to convince the wife to let me buy
the tuner :)
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Kris B.
krisbee at krisbee.com
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