Bragging Time Part 2: Who has the most total storage space in their HTPC?

[petereader]

Originally Posted by paulbeers

Does anyone else get slightly disturbed when they stop and think about how expensive this Sage hobby is and complicated?

Every time I buy new hardware I think about this. This recently came up in a conversation I was having with a friend of mine who restores VW buses as his hobby. I consider my Sage setup to be fairly sophisticated with a server, 2 clients, and a placeshifter. Yet when we compared financial notes, we discovered that he had invested upwards of 4x as much as I had over a similar period of time, between bus purchases, parts, equipment, tools, workspace rental, etc. And that's including my blu-ray, HD-DVD equipment and movie collection which has grown considerably in a very short period of time. I don't feel too bad anymore (until I realize I need more hard drive space, then I feel the pinch in my pocket again).

[Djc208]

Originally Posted by petereader

Yet when we compared financial notes, we discovered that he had invested upwards of 4x as much as I had over a similar period of time, between bus purchases, parts, equipment, tools, workspace rental, etc. And that's including my blu-ray, HD-DVD equipment and movie collection which has grown considerably in a very short period of time. I don't feel too bad anymore (until I realize I need more hard drive space, then I feel the pinch in my pocket again).

That's why my Sage setup isn't that advanced. My "other" hobby is working on my Antique car (and the others I keep around). I'll second guess spending $200 on a new graphics card but just dropped $2000 on a lift for my garage (which itself was quite expensive). On the other hand tools don't realy go obsolete so I don't really care when next years model comes out.

Oh well, if we didn't have more toys to buy we wouldn't need to work so hard.

[petereader]

Originally Posted by Djc208

Oh well, if we didn't have more toys to buy we wouldn't need to work so hard.

Very true. Here's to the weekend

[reggie14]

I must admit, this thread makes me feel grossly inadequate... I think I'm going to have to go out and buy another 500GB hard drive tomorrow. That will still leave me well below most of the people that have replied to this thread.

[Polypro]

900 Gigs on the Sage box for TV, and about 2TB on a WHS box for eveything else (BTW, all my DVDs are in the regular WHS shared video folder and the 4096 cluster size hasn't caused any problems. Diskeeper WHS version *is* on it though). I think this hobby is only complicated when your new (duh )...most of us could probably Next Day Air about $1500 worth of parts and have a top end machine up and running that night. Now it seems like 2nd nature.

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[inlvnv]

1 x 200GB SageTV recording drive and 10 WHS pooled drives totaling approx. 6 TB.

[jpporter]

7 x 500GB
1 x 1tb
= 4.5tb

500gb Video imports
2tb DVDs/HD
2tb Recordings

Looking at adding 4 x 1tb RAID5 in near future.

[sandor]

Originally Posted by paulbeers

Does anyone else get slightly disturbed when they stop and think about how expensive this Sage hobby is and complicated?

nah, i'm OTA only, and still have too much to watch.


When i started down the SageTV path, part of rationalizing it to my wife was that an initial investment would be less than a year of Comcast cable, and better quality.

3 years in, i haven't spent anywhere close to the $3600 that Comcast would have cost me. in fact, our monthly Netflix subscription is probably the single most expensive piece.

I figure i have spent about $3000 over the past 3 years for hardware, tuners drives and Netflix. not bad, and i can watch from anywhere in the world, have hundreds upon hundreds of hours of space to record HD, and have a fully customizable system with 4 HD tuners.