A 30 Drive Case From Lian Li

[will]

Originally Posted by fidget

How many drives, at what speed, are you recording onto? I have 4, 7200 RPM drives for recording 6 HD streams onto (and four HD extenders). By having acaching scheme, I would feel more comfortable only having larger, possibly slower, drives used for evrything.

For my recording drives I'm using an Adaptec 5805 running four WD Caviar Black 750GB drives in a RAID 5. I hope to, in the near future, upgrade my four Hitachi 7K 2TB drives in a RAID 5 to six Hitachi 7k 3TB drives in a RAID 6 and then use my existing 2TB drives in a RAID 10 for SageTV. I'm not a fan of RAID 5 as I have rebuilds fail on me, especially with WD "Green" drives.

I've been planning this upgrade for over a year but it was put on hold when hard drives prices went through the rough last fall. Prices are pretty much back to normal now

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by will

.. I often do four concurrent 1080p recordings while playing back other videos on two separate extenders with no issues. I'm using a higher-end RAID card but my drives are all consumer grade.

Are you really recording 1080P? your sig states you have HDPVR and HDHR's.
Either way I can record from my two HDHR's and one HDHR_Prime at the same time to a Mirrored set of drives with no issues either.

[will]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Are you really recording 1080P? your sig states you have HDPVR and HDHR's.
Either way I can record from my two HDHR's and one HDHR_Prime at the same time to a Mirrored set of drives with no issues either.

You are correct, it is 1080i, not 1080p. I forgot that the HD-PVR and HVR-2250 max out at 1080i.

1080i for the HD-PVRs which are hooked up to two HD cable boxes and I primarily use the HVR-2250 for recording clear QAM stations (two at a time) through cable (I believe Fox is transmitted in 720p but all others in 1080i).

No issues what so ever recording four 1080i recordings at a time. When I first setup SageTV with the HVR-2250 I had a drop-out/capturing problem but I was able to determine it was due to a faulty coaxial cable Time Warner cut for me. Once i replaced it with $2 Monoprice cable I have never had another issue.