[mythtv-users] Hard Drives that Actually Work?

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 16:47:15 UTC 2004


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:53:36 -0600, Paul.Buchanan at thomson.com
<Paul.Buchanan at thomson.com> wrote:
> I just had my second Western Digital Special Edition 200 GB drive die on me.  Since I'm using an ASUS Pundit, I figured heat was the culprit, so the second drive had a dual-fan cooler on it.  No such luck.  After about three months of use, performance suddenly degrades, and the journals begin to corrupt.  A few days later, I/O errors crop up, and the drive is pretty much useless.
> 
> Are these drives just not up to the stress of a PVR?  I'm interested in hearing what kind of drives people have had good luck with, as I've about had it with these.  I'll get my third on warranty, but It won't be going back into a myth box.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
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I've had good luck recently with seagate drives, and a lot of people
recommend the Maxtor Quickview drives.  The quickviews are made to be
used with a pvr.

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