[mythtv-users] Buffering LiveTV data to save hard drive wear?
Peter VanDerWal
peter at vanderwal.us
Tue Jul 15 08:23:21 UTC 2008
I've been reading recently that using ordinary hard drives in DVRs can
cause them to wear out rapidly. It has something to do with the heads
constantly moving back and forth between reading and writing data streams
while watching LiveTV, etc.
Does MythTV buffer this data at all? I.e. does it keep 3-4 seconds worth
of data in memory so ther hard drive does constantly have to switch
between writing ther data and going back and reading it three seconds
later?
If it doesn't do this, is there anyway I can set this up?
I know the HDD has a built in buffer, but I don't think it's big enough to
hold 3-4 seconds worth of data,or what ever the minimum is when watching
LiveTV.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good HDD optimized for DVR use?
Preferably a quiet one?
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