Reccomended Hardware

[theman]

Is it possible to have GB-PVR (or more likely windows) treat more then one HD as a video Repository, kind of how LVM could work in Linux? So I could use a couple 120GB HD's I have instead of buying a new 200-300GB unit. Next what does anyone recommend for a tv-out card? I'm assuming if it does H/W decoding thats better and less taxing on the system? Tia, theman.

[Torque]

I don't know if GBPVR will point to multiple locations (or if a plugin would accomplish that) but my solution would be to stripe the two 120GB disks together using XP's software RAID.

[reboot]

Raid is a wonderful thing.
Grab as many 250gb drives as you can afford, on a Neo4 chipset board, and stripe them all. Then put a smallish (80 gig?) on IDE as the boot drive, and let everything record to the array.
You could even split up the drives into two arrays, one for recording, and one for video work. That way, your recordings don't have a chance to hiccup, when running an encoder or multitasking stuff on the other.

One thing for sure, get as much HD storage as you can reasonably afford. It'll get chewed up fast, especially with multiple cards.