On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:29:20PM -0700, Adam H. Peterson wrote: > Brian Phillips wrote: > > > >How much space would I need to record 4 months of tv and then try and cram > >that into a 3 week break? > > It uses about 2.17GB per hour of recording, at least on my box. (If you > have a HD tuner, I expect it might take more.) So if you plan on > watching 80 hours a week for those three weeks, that would be about > 520GB of storage for programs. >
With our MPEG2 encoder card, we have ours set for about 1 GB per hour, at the moment. It's all adjustable. 2.17 GB seems a bit excessive to me. -- Scott Paul Robertson http://spr.mahonri5.net GnuPG FingerPrint: 09ab 64b5 edc0 903e 93ce edb9 3bcc f8fb dc5d 7601
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