[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:09 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'm not convinced that's true, but admittedly I haven't tried it in  
> this
>  particular application.
>
> For databases it's often the seek speed that matters, not so much the
> data rate.  Flash drives have excellent seek speed.

Often, yes. Specifically, not in this case.
Hint: Look at write activity in MySQL while recording a program.  
Specifically, look at the seektables.