[mythtv-users] Buffering LiveTV data to save hard drive wear?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/15/2008 01:54 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>   
>>> Seagate (which is the only mfg I'll buy for the warranty) makes a DB35 line
>>> specifically for DVRs
>>>
>>> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/db35_series/
>>>
>>> Whether that truly is necessary for Myth or makes any difference, I doubt
>>> it.  My drives don't seem to wear out any faster with Myth than any other
>>> system I've used.
>> At work where we have several hundred IDE/SATA drives I do not see the
>> more used ones having any higher failure rate then the lesser used
>> ones.
> I can second that.

And Google (the company that runs the search engine, not the results of
searching with the engine) thirds that:

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

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http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/336227#336227

(and possibly others :)

Mike