I demand that Niko Mikkila may or may not have written... > On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:35:13 +0000 > Darren Salt <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I demand that Kartsa may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> Almost every day I record three channels at the same time. >> That means little without bandwidth stats (or disk space used per hour) >> for those channels. > On average under 3500 kbit/s = 1.5 GB/hour for most Finnish channels, at > least on DVB-T, and I doubt cable is any better here. That's 437.5kB/s. Let's double that to take account of PCI->memory transfer and processing time taking a chunk out of disk I/O time and assume typical maximum IDE bandwidth of 30MB/s on PII/PIII boards. That gives 35 channels. I'm not saying that this is in any way accurate, though :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. revision: n. The act of reading notes five minutes before an important exam.
