[mythtv-users] Western Digital Red for Myth

[Stephen Worthington]

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.