hauppauge 1600 and 500 tuners

[johnm160]

Hi gang,

I was wondering if the hauppauge 1600 and 500 cards play nice together in the same machine. I already have a 1600 because that is all the local store had. But I want to add a 500 for more tuners. Is there any problem with this.

Thanks

John

[that_kid]

Yes they play nicely together. I actually had 2 pvr150's 1 pvr 500 and 2 hvr1600's installed in the same system and didn't have any problems so you should be good.

[johnm160]

Thanks for the info. How may streams were you able to rec/play at once with no problem?

John

[that_kid]

I've recorded from my 2 HDHR sources and 4 direct tv sources while streaming to all the clients in the house (3 MVP media centers, 2 Sage clients) and haven't had any degradation of quality. I have yet to really stress the system yet as I have more recording sources than playback.

[johnm160]

That sounds great, what were your system specs? I am planning 4 sd and 2 streams and adding 2 hd later. I was un sure if that would be a problem. I was also wondering about using the box with windows home server as a file server at the same time but disk i/o might be an issue at that point.

Thanks again

John

[that_kid]

My Sage server is a Athalon 3500+, 2 gigs of ram and a 500 gig record drive with Server 2003 R2. I was thinking of going the home server route but home server doesn't really offer me anything. My media (less recorded shows) is stored on SAN with fibre channel backplane and using DFS to replicate between my house and my parents house and the thing with WHS is that you can't add it to a domain, well you can but things will break (I brought this up during the WHS beta). I was going to use WHS for the expandable storage but I decided to push everything to the San. My Sage clients are HP Z555's with 2 gigs of ram running vista ultimate. I've been thinking of upgrading my server but performance has been great and i'm not running out of cpu (see graph).

[johnm160]

Eric,

that graph looks like my system when it is idle....lol,
I am looking toward whs for zero learning curve for the wife and kid or I would play with something else I just dont know how much disk I/O use I can get away with before it starts to affect sage recordings.

BTW if I decide to go hdhomerun for hd I really dont need the digital tuner on the 1600 right? I should probably return the 1600 and get a 500 if not.

[that_kid]

I like the HDHR over the HVR1600 for QAM but I haven't tried the 1600 for OTA yet. I plan on setting that up soon though so I'll be able to let you know more then. WHS is great, you should really go for that as it'll allow you to expand your storage quickly and easily. Plus you can access your files remotely and do nice backups.