Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="giantjoebot" data-source="post: 153133" data-attributes="member: 26289">I've been debating this over and over again.&nbsp; It seems like such a waist of drive space to dedicate an entire drive to timeshifting.&nbsp; The smallest out of the 3 that I have is 160gb.&nbsp; Thats 160 hours of SD, and 16hours HD, right?&nbsp; EDIT:&nbsp; Wait a secondEven if doing HD, one drive seems like enough for recording and timeshifting with 2 clients.HD records at 10GB/hourthere are 3600 seconds in one hour10,000/3600=2.78MB/sSo even HD is only going at a rate of less than 3MB/s.&nbsp; With 2 clients, the most that it would be doing is 5 reads and writes at the same time which would be 14MB/s.&nbsp; Last time I checked 7200RPM hard drives average at 60MB/s to 50MB/s.&nbsp; Of course there seek time and latency to consider, but it still seems like one drive is enough.&nbsp; But I not completely sure if I'm correct on this</blockquote>

[QUOTE="giantjoebot, post: 153133, member: 26289"] I've been debating this over and over again. It seems like such a waist of drive space to dedicate an entire drive to timeshifting. The smallest out of the 3 that I have is 160gb. Thats 160 hours of SD, and 16hours HD, right? EDIT: Wait a second Even if doing HD, one drive seems like enough for recording and timeshifting with 2 clients. HD records at 10GB/hour there are 3600 seconds in one hour 10,000/3600=2.78MB/s So even HD is only going at a rate of less than 3MB/s. With 2 clients, the most that it would be doing is 5 reads and writes at the same time which would be 14MB/s. Last time I checked 7200RPM hard drives average at 60MB/s to 50MB/s. Of course there seek time and latency to consider, but it still seems like one drive is enough. But I not completely sure if I'm correct on this [/QUOTE]

Verification