[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:35 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:

> 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.

That's a terrible idea. Flash drives can't keep up with the read/write  
demands of a database application in terms of speed or longevity.  
Don't do that.