I have the following drives available to me:

160GB IDE with the OS installed. Roughly 150GB available on a partition of that disk - mounted on /myth

80GB IDE

500GB External Firewire

250GB IDE - not installed yet - probably will use for another project.


I'm thinking use the remainder of the 160GB drive for Videos
The 80 GB for /myth/music
and the 500GB external for /myth/tv


Now that I have the xvid transcode job available to me (fantastic!) I transcode my "keeper" shows to xvid and then they are stored on myth/video.. so I may not need as much storage in /myth/tv as I used to... so I'm thinking that if i need to allocate more of the space on the 500GB drive I can just use a symlink from inside /myth/videos

Just bouncing my thoughts out there. Maybe someone has a better idea.

It all depends on your needs and your usage patterns.

I use a lot of /myth/tv because I like high-def shows. HD requires up to 8 GB/hour to record, so a typical football game can be 24G or more. I also like DVDs, but I don't want to transcode them -- I'd rather rip the whole ISO so I have the menus and special features. That's about 8G per movie.

So I set up my myth box like this:

400G drive -- / and /myth
750G drive -- /myth/tv
750G drive -- /myth/video

This will give me about 100 hours of TV programming and another 100 DVDs in my "changer". The rest I will use for MP3's, mostly, as I don't do games.

On your situation, the one thing I'd caution you about is relying on an external disk for the TV recordings. I'm not sure I trust an external to be 100% reliable under all circumstances. I'd rather see that 500G internally connected.

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Ahh. HD - I did forget about that. HD is in my plans as soon as I buy a capable tuner. I've already tried some movies in HD and they look fantastic. through the DVI out to HDMI in.