[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

[Dan Wilga]

At 7:26 PM -0700 9/10/08, mythtv at blandford.net wrote:
>>I would like to spin down my drives just to save some power, but 
>>myth/mysql seems to be writing to the database once per second. 
>>Seems like a complete waste.
>
>Yeah, that is a problem.
>
>The only time it makes sense to do this is if your database and your 
>recordings are on different drives.

You could also install a flash card reader and put the database files 
on a flash drive. Granted, it might tend to slow things down, given 
how slow these things are at writes, but it would definitely consume 
less power.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."