Disk space Usage rules problem?

[isgdre]

I've set SageTV to "Leave 420 gb Free" It's now been a couple of days that the drive has been 382gb free. And there is plenty of Watched but not Manually recorded items. Shouldn't it delete some (likely oldest) to get disk space back?

[GKusnick]

Where's the 382 GB figure coming from? Remember that Microsoft insists on measuring GB as 1024^3 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. By that measure 382 GB = 410,169,376,768 bytes. So you could still be within the margin of error, depending on who's doing the counting.

[UgaData]

Is that your only drive configured for recordings?

As I understand it, Sage isn't going to delete anything as long as you have enough space for recordings to made (hence,the above question). As long as there is space on another drive Sage just won't record to the restricted drive.

It could also depend on other individual settings for recordings.

[TwistedMelon]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

Where's the 382 GB figure coming from? Remember that Microsoft insists on measuring GB as 1024^3 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. By that measure 382 GB = 410,169,376,768 bytes. So you could still be within the margin of error, depending on who's doing the counting.

Any other definition of GigaByte is completely asinine revisionist propaganda and marketing-speak. Measures of computer memory and disk space are base 2, period. AFAIK, only Apple has switched to match the base 10 calculations that hard drive manufacturers use to artificially inflate their drive sizes. This is the same thing monitor manufacturers used to do when they sold 16" displays as 17 and 18" - they measured the size of the plastic casing, not the screen.

Anyway, with regards to the OP, as mentioned by UGADATA, Sage won't delete anything until it needs space to make a recording. And then only if your recordings are set to allow auto-delete.

Can you still make recordings? Did you set the space limit before or after your drive was at 382 GB?

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by TwistedMelon

Any other definition of GigaByte is completely asinine revisionist propaganda and marketing-speak. Measures of computer memory and disk space are base 2, period.

Not to take this too far off-topic, but in any other context, "giga" means 1,000,000,000 and has done so since long before there was such a thing as a gigabyte. I fully understand the binary origin of computer geek-speak "mega" and "giga" (I grew up programming on punch cards), but in an era when ordinary citizens carry gigabytes in their back pockets, I think it's way past time to normalize the usage. Hard drive manufacturers have it right by reporting capacities honestly in units anyone can understand.