[mythtv-users] Drive specs best for Myth

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Mon Apr 23 04:01:44 UTC 2007


Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> says:
> What are the drive characteristics best for MythTV?  I'm trying to
> eliminate any IOBOUND messages and I'm thinking that my three drive
> setup isn't ideal.  I'm trying to decide if I need to focus on
> spindles (more smaller drives), seek times, RPM, or a combination.
> I seem to run into trouble only when recording 2 HD, one HD
> commflag, and one or more SD recordings happening at the same time.

Check out the following threads

<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/261448#261448>
<URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/262606#262606>

Being able to modify the values for TFW_DEF_BUF_SIZE,
TFW_MAX_WRITE_SIZE, and TFW_MIN_WRITE_SIZE without recompiling would
be a great boon, in my experience, for those dealing with HD streams.

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