[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events
Dan Wilga
mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Thu Sep 11 13:35:01 UTC 2008
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."
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