http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/ Engadget Comments for SnapStream's Godzilla DVR: 11 tuners, 1TB storage, $4,000 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Mar 22nd 2006 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/
i tried to use snapstream once and found the whole deal more work than it was worth. i got a tivo and haven't looked back since. with the new hdtv tivo that has additional storage options i cant imagine ever going back. i can afford the 13 a month and its the best 13 i spend all month.]]>Jan 19th 2006 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/
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]]>Jan 19th 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/I also don't see the point of running the HDDs in RAID-0, because you're just asking for trouble when one fails]]>Jan 19th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 19th 2006 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/They're worried about heat but pack the case with 6 hard drives and a pentium ee (d series). they're concerned about noise but pack the case with 6 hard drives and a pentium ee...

•ditch the hard drives and pick up 2 hitachi 500 gig drives and a raptor 36 gig (for the OS, since that's how they want to do it).
•ditch that pentium setup and get a high end centrino setup (it will do very good encoding on the fly and nowhere near as much heat).
•ditch that case (very very nice case, but there are other cases that will cool a cpu better, like that one that has fins designed on the exterior?)
•ditch that dvd burner. this ties in with the case, but get one that fits a notebook burner; more room for air flow and designed to run cooler.

oh, and we run into one *little* problem. does that computer have the bandwidth to record 11 shows at once? i mean, 4 HDTV streams and 7 SDTV streams? All to the hard drives at the same time?]]>Jan 19th 2006 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/]]>Jan 19th 2006 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/
Seriously, 11 tuners? I can see 4 or possibly 5, but that's about it. Proof of concept, I guess.]]>Jan 20th 2006 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/
I sense a venture capital disturbance in the force...]]>Jan 20th 2006 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 20th 2006 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/Jan 20th 2006 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/19/snapstreams-godzilla-dvr-11-tuners-1tb-storage-4-000/
Where's my Big League Chew when I need it?
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