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Author:  mihanson [ Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:52 pm ]
Post subject:  One Day Sale: WD Caviar GP WD7500AACS 750GB $140

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136150&Tpk=22-136-150
One day only sale @ newegg. $140 + free shipping.

Author:  marc.aronson [ Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:28 pm ]
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I purchased this drive a few weeks ago at that same sale price. It is very quiet and performance support recording 2 hi-def, 1 std-def and playback of 1 hi-def without problems. I am very happy with it.

Marc

Author:  jzigmyth [ Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:38 am ]
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marc.aronson wrote:
support recording 2 hi-def, 1 std-def and playback of 1 hi-def without problems. I am very happy with it.
Just curious, what sort of horsepower and motherboard are you using to handle all this?
Thanks, Ziggy

Author:  marc.aronson [ Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:24 am ]
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jzigmyth wrote:
marc.aronson wrote:
support recording 2 hi-def, 1 std-def and playback of 1 hi-def without problems. I am very happy with it.
Just curious, what sort of horsepower and motherboard are you using to handle all this?
Thanks, Ziggy

I should add that I can also transcode to xvid in the background using mencoder at the same time. My setup is as follows:

1. Pentium D-930, dual core, 3.0 ghz
2. 1 GB RAM
3. 400 GB EIDE drive -- contains root partition and is where I output all transcoded recordings to.
4. 500 GB SATA drive -- contains /myth partition and all original recordings.

The intent of this disk setup is to improve performance when running parallel processes. Database I/O and transcode writes do not contend for disk access with recordings...

Marc

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