Re: Suggestions for new Media PC

[Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Feb 2010, at 10:28, Ian Oliver wrote:
> In article <4B790C3C.9060406@xxxxxxx>, Jamie Bennett wrote:
>> I'm wondering how it would cope with a couple of USB freeview
>> tunes recording at the same time as playback. I presume it would
cope
>> fine but it would be nice to know before I press the buy button.
>
> Last night we had this lot recording.
> CH5, 7:30PM for 35mins
> BBC4, 8PM for 1hr10
> Quest, 8PM for 1hr10
> CH4, 8PM for 1hr10
> BBC1, 8PM for 1hr
> BBC1, 9PM for 1hr
> CH4, 10PM, 1hr15
> BBC1, 10:35PM for 1hr
>
> I took a peek at 8PM when it was doing five recordings and CPU peaked
at
> 19% and iotop showed only 3MBytes/s hitting the hard disk. Loads of
> headroom.
>
> I also tested playing three different programs at once (two on
frontends
> and one on backend) and there were no issues.
>
> At the weekend, I'm going to actually set out to try and find its
> limits!

WOW, I'm constantly amazed by how much these little boxes can do. I've just
bought one for my parents to replace their ageing p4 system that sounds
like a hair-dryer, they are more than pleased.

> Ian Oliver

Regards,
Jamie.
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