Hard drive size with Sage

SubaruWRX · #1 02-18-2006, 12:40 AM

I'm placing my order soon for my parts but I'm still stuck on what size drive would be best.

I don't want it to be too small is 300GB good enough?

mikejaner · #2 02-18-2006, 01:14 AM

Unless your recording alot of HD content, or storing entire seasons of shows or movies, you should be just fine with 300GB

Fluffdaddy · #3 02-18-2006, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SubaruWRX

I'm placing my order soon for my parts but I'm still stuck on what size drive would be best.

I don't want it to be too small is 300GB good enough?

300 x 2 and you will be a happy camper

Ken C · #4 02-18-2006, 09:48 AM

To paraphrase, you can never have enough hard drive space. Get the biggest one you can afford and prepare for future expansion. These PVR's are addictive. I've got 600 gb with only about 150 gb free, and I'm only talking about TV shows. If you start talking about ripping DVD's, start thinking about NAS. I've always wondered if Sage wasn't really owned by Seagate or Maxtor !!

Ken C

SubaruWRX · #5 02-18-2006, 10:09 AM

My issue is running out of Space... Like I'm doing the Olympics and I had to stop short

I'm hoping I can get the HTPC running before the closing Like Just the opening was some 10 or 15GB at 3500GB per hour File so Large I can't find a way to put it on DVD after getting the file size down.

I'm not that Huge of a Tv watcher, but some shows like th Olympics come on while i'm in class.

dbfresh23 · #6 02-18-2006, 11:07 AM

What is big enough for you may not be big enough for someone else. It all depends how much you record. It also matters if you plan on archiving shows or deleting them after you've watched them. My suggestion would be to go with 1 for now and when you start running out of space then add another. By the time you need another you may even be able to get a 500gb for what you pay for that 300gb today.

SubaruWRX · #7 02-18-2006, 11:19 AM

lol Funny thing is I will be buying 2 500GB drives for my Main PC.. Reason is I'm running 4 hard drives in one Case, and the temps get pretty warm. The largest of the 4 is 160GB and after that is 40GB.

So if I can move 4 into 2 that would be great. Most in part I play games and do Video Editing.

However the HTPC is not going to be so much the same, Smaller Space in a SSF format, So space is a issue as well as cooling

But right now I'm looking at a 300GB now.

going into this case.

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