[mythtv-users] Western Digital Red for Myth

[Mike Carron]

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Worthington
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2013 6:08 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Western Digital Red for Myth

On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:34:22 -0500, you wrote:

>On 08/24/2013 12:44 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:43:25 -0400, you wrote:
>...
>> I have not done any calculations to see what that limit would mean, 
>> for my usage of a MythTV drive, but 55 Tbytes does not seem too small 
>> a number.
>...
>
>*Very* roughly: 55,000,000,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 / 365 = 25 1 Hour HD
Recordings/Day.
>Then divide 25 by 2 for commercial flagging and by 2 again if you 
>actually want to watch the recording. ~~6 shows/day?  Hmmm, left out some
number of preview generations/views.

And you can leave out the commercial flagging from that if you have a fast
CPU like I have on the backend that runs the flagging in realtime out of the
disk buffers.

//
What do you consider a fast CPU? My BE is currently running on a Core i7 930
with 12gb of RAM and it finishes the flagging of a 3 hour show about 2 hours
after the show is finished.

mike