[vdr] Re: other way of storage your recordings

[Andreas Mixich <sp.amix@gmx.net>]

You wrote:

> something reasonable it is still to expensive. However I think it should
> be an alternative we should follow. Maybe somekind of generic tape-drive
> support, we we could at some time even support all kinds of backup
> drives. Or maybe support for reading/writing all kinds of streams on
> VDR.

I was tinkering with a thought a while back but had t realize, that the
costs would be much too high still:

An ADR-Onstream50. It stores 25GB uncompressed. The drives are (SCSI
version) around 600 USD or so. A big advantage is, that they are rather
fast in getting to the index and can play media in "realitme" streams at
speeds of 2-4MBit/sec. For Windows there is software to use the
tape-drive just as another HDD. This would be possible for Linux also,
the drivers are generic (in the meanwhile).

Another similar alternative might be the VX-1 (or so) tapedrives.
Similare in priceand performance.

Onstream also introduced ADR2 which is a little faster and has a little
more capacity.

However, the main reaosn I did not get one is the high media costs. Just
too expensive.


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Bye, Andreas

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