Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Norbert Goebel wrote: Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Not excatly. I would call it semy-online-storage. Normaly the HDDs are switched off. But as they are connected to USB-Power-Switches they can be switched on/off automatically by the computer.(*) Hi, I just got interested

Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Emil Naepflein
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:31:56 +0200, you wrote: So Carsten, you talk about archiving. Then you should definitely go for h264 coding, with constant quality. Why keep everything online? What is the aim of having terra bytes online? It costs a lot of energy. I have a similar setup like Carsten (2.5

Re: AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-13 Thread Guido Fiala
On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:08, Emil Naepflein wrote: That doesn't matter. Important ist that I have instant access. Keeping it online has the drawback that all parts fail at once when your house gets hit by lightning/overvoltage...not sure how good USVs are at protecting hardware.

AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
You may want to go for a hardware solution .. http://www.litec-computer.de/Festplatten/35/UDMA/Seagate-ST3750640A-750GB-72 00RPM-16MB::10223.html would make 250 Films á 3GB .. let's assume: 3GB equals 1 hour and think of: max. 8 hours per day viewing .. would mean you have more than 30 days,

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Guido Fiala wrote: ... Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. But seriously: My VDR system started out in June 2000

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Carsten Koch
Carsten Koch wrote: ... Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000 Kiloquads. Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/misc/artikel-computer.htm

AW: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread martin
collection is larger than you can listen to it in one year! Martin -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Carsten Koch Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2006 20:23 An: VDR Mailing List Betreff: Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Carsten Koch wrote: martin wrote: ... go and get yourself a new hard disc :-) Well, that option is of course always available. ;-) Let's take a look at my vdr system: /video df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 xfs147G 12G 136G 8% /

Re: AW: [vdr] Doubling my available VDR disk space without cost or loss of convenience.

2006-09-12 Thread Guido Fiala
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 20:22, Carsten Koch wrote: Guido Fiala wrote: ... Sounds like the core computer of the USS-Enterprise - How many Terra-Quads are this? ;-) Actually, according to http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/ncc1701d.htm the Enterprise D has a mere 630.000