[mythtv-users] USB DVB-T2 tuners

[PJR]

> In article <55157782.2040602 at randomtraveller.org.uk>, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> That's a question of taste - and how big your storage drives are. As I
>> mentioned, to me (and the others in the family) the differences between SD and
>> HD are sometimes hard to see. That may be because we tend to record mainly the
>> BBC channels with the occasional channel 4, 5 and Film4 and I think the
>> bandwidth (=quality) is good enough.
> It's true that mythtv looks good even for Freeview SD, and even on our 46" TV.
> Maybe our eyes are getting old?
>
>> HD was used for the Olympics, though.
> No sport watched in our household. If I spot anything sport related in the
> channel list, it goes at the same time as the auction/sale/"speciality" ones.
>
>> For storage, HD ~= SD * 4. An hour of HD is about 8GB, despite the better
>> encoding algorithm. I have 1TB of storage, you may have more.
> I'm building the new BE with 2TB. I have two drives configured as raid 1, but I
> will have three hot swap bays free, so moving to 4TB or 6TB is easy, but does
> escalate the backup problems. (And yes, I do backup both system drives and raid
> arrays because I've enjoyed file system corruption even with good drives.)
>
> BTW, my new backend, bristling with hot swap, USB2 and DVB-T2 tuners has been
> named "Overkill", which seems apt!
>
>
>
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My BE uses 2x1TB drives in raid1 using ZFS.  I tried the 'standard' 
linux raid 1 s/w but after the discs failed (no connection, just rubbish 
discs) I tried ZFS. Compared to the alternative for setup it's really, 
really simple; I will now always use ZFS for raid.