HardDrive Speed for three recordings at the same Time

Hey everybody.

I am planning to by a new Hard Drive for my recordings and would like to know if a Hard Drive with 5400 U/Min is fast enough for 3 recordings at the same time or if a Hard Drive with 7200 is needed?

Thanks for your help

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Hi,

I have a Samsung 2TB HD203WI with 5400U/min in my server and can record 4 channels in parallel and on top watch one of them live (extra timeshifting on the same HD!)
All of this on a AMD E-350 system

regards

flintstone

AW: HardDrive Speed for three recordings at the same Time

Perfect - thanks for the fast information

PS:
My Server is also an AMD E-350

I can confirm flintstone's answer.

I have a 1.5TB Western Digital AV-GP (which according to some reviews has quite a poor throughput compared to some other 5,400 rpm drives) and I have managed to record five five channels at the same time (one of which was HD) as well as playing back a recorded programme - I wasn't deliberately testing it, it was just christmas and loads of things were on all at the same time.

Due to the Density of these 5,400 rpm drives they act as fast (if not faster) as the 7,200 rpm drives of yesteryear.

Remember that recorded digital TV is only in megabits, whereas your hard drive should be able to read and write many megabytes a second. I can easily record 10+ channels at once and play back at the same time.