[ale] Good machine for recording ?

[Derek Atkins]

DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> writes:

> On 08/11/2017 10:15 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Talk about over-powered!   I have 2 HDHomeRuns (so 4 feeds) that are
>> recording to an ARM Wandboard Quad with a 2TB SATA disk!   Running MythTV.
>
> And those are concurrent 1080i recordings?

Yes.

> USB2 can't handle that throughput, so a R-pi isn't a good choice for
> more than 1 or 2 concurrent recordings and probably 1 of them needs to
> be SD, not HD.

I don't think the SATA or the GigE are running off a USB2 on the wandboard.

-derek
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