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stanger89
07-27-2005, 06:11 PM
Being that Sage is such an efficient eater of HDD space:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=563641
flavius
07-27-2005, 06:21 PM
Sound's like it's time to hire somebody - to watch all that stuff that I will be able to record.-
stanger89
07-27-2005, 06:54 PM
Don't forget about HD, 9GB/hr.
flavius
07-27-2005, 07:19 PM
Well, I have cheap cat5 all over the house. I already have on HD cable box (+DVR), so I have an idea what I could be looking at - as far as my Sage recordings are concerned. My new server (with 2 SATA raid controllers) could handle it. But how about my 100MBit network?
stanger89
07-27-2005, 08:28 PM
HD, worst case is 36Mbps, and that's for QAM (which is 2 channels). Normal OTA is only 19.4Mbps.
flavius
07-28-2005, 04:36 PM
Hm, so, you think I could be able to have two clients play HD recordings at the same time over my 100MBit network?
stanger89
07-28-2005, 04:51 PM
Probably, although you'd probably need a full duplex connection to record and playback two streams.
sleonard
07-28-2005, 07:02 PM
Does anyone know if these Dell SATA II drive will work with a SATA I controller? I'm pretty sure they will (sort of like connecting a PATA 133 drive to a PATA 100 controller) but I don't really know for sure.