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October 4, 2006
How to Kill a Hard Drive
In case the title wasn't enough, this might be labeled 'nerdy'. Continue at your own risk.
I haven't done it yet, but that doesn't mean I'm not trying. I've been wanting to put a second tuner card into my computer for a while so that I could keep up with all of the fall programming on the telly. For those in the know, I already had a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350. I planned to add a WinTV-PVR-250 but could not find the one with composite input in stock for a reasonable price. I ended up with a WinTV-PVR-500 MCE instead. It's basically two tuners for the price of one. My poor refurbished, Woot'd 250GB hard drive now has to record up to three shows at a time while occasionally playing video back simultaneously. Perhaps I should move my Azureus directory to another drive...and stock up on the 250's next time they're on Woot.
For anyone trying to do the same thing, a 250Gb hard drive is nowhere near large enough. With 3 tuners recording at my current settings (Great-2GB/hour), I'll run out of space in roughly 24 hours (30 if the drive were empty. Not that I watch 95% of it, but I have to keep up with it to make sure it doesn't start erasing things that I wanted to watch.
Now I just need an HD tuner :) ..and a petabyte drive..
Posted by mhader at October 4, 2006 8:29 PM
Comments
Might be labeled as nerdy??
Posted by: mary at October 5, 2006 9:30 AM
Ok 'might' may have been a little understated..I wrote that before I started the entry and never got to a non-nerdy topic.
Posted by: michael at October 5, 2006 2:25 PM