<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 15, 2007 9:50 AM, Mark J. Small <<a href="mailto:msmall@eastlink.ca">msmall@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On November 15, 2007, Tom Dexter wrote:<br>> On Nov 15, 2007 5:39 AM, Mark Small <<a href="mailto:msmall@eastlink.ca">msmall@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> > In such a system, your biggest bottleneck will likely be bandwidth to the
<br>> > hard disk(s). If you've got 4 folks watching HDTV streams, that's a TON<br>> > of data the gets written and read constantly. <br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>While I won't argue that I/O is a potential issue, it not THAT big of an issue. 4 HD streams only amount to about 7MB/s of data. If you have 4 HD tuners, you'll probably want more than one disk for storage, but you could get by with a single SATA disk.
<br><br>-chris <br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>