Well, I just had 7 HD

Well, I just had 7 HD recordings going at once on a single WD10EACS drive (1TB  GreenPower, the original model) with nary a stutter, so I fired up ShowAnalyzer and kept adding threads to see where it would break, but with 7 threads going (one for each show) none of the recordings missed a beat.   I didn’t see any pixelation at all while watching any of the in-progress recordings while this was going on.  I wonder if the optimizations for the AV-GP drives makes them run poorly with ShowAnalyzer.

I guess I’ll quit worrying about whether or not my drives are fast enough to keep up with my tuners.    I suppose if I had 12 tuners it might be a different story 🙂

The odd part was that I expected to see the CPU maxed out by SA, but it was bouncing between 20 and 60% while running the 7 threads.  The SA UI said it was using 9-10 MB/s during this. 

This was on a Core i3 2100T and the drive was pretty freshly formatted with 64K clusters, BTW.