[mythtv-users] How many PVR cards can one system take?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/05/2006 03:00 AM, Chris Isip wrote:
> I have 2 PVR 250 cards happily running in a Soyo KT400 with Athlon 
> 2400 XP.  I have a spare pvr 500 which I can put in this box.  I 
> wonder if anybody has created a 4 tuner setup.

Yep.

> I have a couple of hard drives in LVM with ext3 on them.  Both 
> harddrives are ATA 100.   I wonder if 4 simultaneous recordings will 
> be too much for the hard drives to handle.

Nope.

> Any thoughts?


Have recorded 4 shows at once while doing near-real-time commflagging 
and watching another (recorded) show.  No fancy RAID or anything, just 
an LVM with ext3.

Mike