Las Vegas and Media Center
I spent the weekend in Las Vegas and left my Media Center at home to record everything I wanted to watch while I was away. I got back last night and fired it up and saw everything had been recorded correctly while I'd been away and nothing had gone wrong. I'm always a bit concerned about leaving something like that running when I'm not around, but it did the job perfectly. I really have nothing to be concerned about as it runs perfectly well when I am there so it should work just as well when I'm not there.
I've noticed I'm really running low on disk space though, I have two 200Gb drives in my system and there's not much left. Most shows that I record I keep once I've edited out the commericals and then I convert them to WMV format to save space. I'm either going to have to delete some stuff or get more drives. I don't like deleting content though, but it could soon get expensive to be adding more storage all the time. The sooner I have a file server setup to store everything on the better. This adds another problem though, backup. There really doesn't seem to be a good consumer solution for backing up that doesn't involve just copying to another drive. I could just copy on to DVDs and that's a possible solution I might take - restoring from backup though would be a lengthy and labor intensive process though.