So the day I feared is

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April 9, 2012 at 5:35 pm #7084
Kirby

    So the day I feared is finally nearing.  In a month or two, my cable provider will be adding dozens of copy-once channels, and I will want access to them without having to deal with a lone HD-PVR for tuning/recording over 30 channels.  So my SageTV time seems to be about up.  Looking at switching to media center, but in doing so I am going to have to put a recording drive in my Tivo case.  Not a big deal, it will fit right where the SSD was (as I picked up a 64GB mSata drive for a clean OS install).  

    What I dont know is, what is a good drive brand/model to put in for recording?  I will have 5 tuners (all HD Homeruns, 3 Prime, 1 QAM, 1 OTA) and I want to keep heat of the drive to a minimum as my case only has the rear exhaust fan (controlled off the motherboard, PWM fan).  I dont need huge storage, as I plan to have MCE archive all recordings to my WHS2011 box.

    Since I dont know how often/fast MCE will archive, that could play into the drive size calculation.  Everything is on a gigabit network, so transfers should be rather speedy.

    What would you guys and gals suggest?  Green drive?  Brand?  I’m thinking I could get by with even 500GB or so, depending on how often MCE archives.  

    Appreciate your input! 🙂