Digital TV hardware?

[Owen Townend]

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> > Im also looking into setting up a Myth TV box in the near future i have
> some hardware already but im adding a bit as i can afford it.  Its currently
> acting as an apt-cache and will soon become network file storage as well.
>  So far i dont have the TV cards or Storage HDD's.
> Do people think this setup will work.
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> CM Stacker 810
> Q6600 OC to around 3.6Ghz (im still slowly doing the Overclock)
> 2Gb DDR 2 RAM
> 1x160Gb System HDD
> 3x750Gb HDD for storage
> 2x AverTV Dual DBV-T PCI-E x 1 cards
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> Im planning to add to it later a few more 750+Gb Drives and a pair of
> SATA2 cards to take them.
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> Would that happily record 3 channels and play back another do you think or
> will i need more RAM and HDD's to spread the load?
> Leslie Gossner
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Hey,
  That sounds more than fine depending on your config. Recording is a dump
of the mpeg2 stream from the card to the disk and so seems to be limited
mostly disk resources. You could set up storage groups - set three groups,
one on each disk, set each card to default to a different group and you'll
be fine. Another option would be to set up raid5 using the 3 disks (as I
have done) which spreads the load evenly for you and also gives you some
redundancy against a disk failure.

Cheers,
Owen.
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