[mythtv-users] Notebook hard drives

Dane Kantner webmaster at cmtweb.com
Fri Jul 18 16:58:45 EDT 2003


> I heard somewhere that most notebook drives are only 5400RPM or lower, and
would not hold up to this kind of access.
last time i knew, that was true... but that was two years ago... but,
battery technology isn't that much different so it might still hold true.

anyway, the original tivos use 5400 rpm hard drives, so i'm not sure what
makes them so special... in theory anything they can do you can too ;)  ...
they of course have more hardware specific to the functions of PVR (e.g.,
dedicated encoder/decoder hardware).  And, they have a tweaked file system,
which might be the difference.  you can tweak the linux file system, read
back in the list for some tips (and theres something in the faq about this
iirc).

i haven't heard much squawk about hard drive requirements, and 5400rpm
drives are still very common, so i'm sure if they weren't sufficient there
would be something in the HOWTO hardware section.  And, glancing at the pvr
hardware database, there are several 5400 rpm drives in use...

-d



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