[mythtv-users] thrashing hard drive

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Bobby Gill wrote:

> Yes, I imagine most people have it set up this way. I saw great  
> improvements when I was using a single standard def capture card and  
> recording/commflagging/watching all at the same time. I would get  
> frequent pauses until I threw in a 40GB system drive I had laying  
> around. I've since moved far beyond his setup (6 tuners, 2.5TB  
> storage) and would never dream of putting mysql on the same drive as  
> my recordings. I'm even considering moving mysql to its own drive  
> separate from the system to help minimize loss and wear/tear on the  
> drives.
>
> -Brad
>
> Brad,
>
> Is that an IDE 40gb you threw in? I have one as well in an XP box  
> just sitting there empty, but fear IDE would slow things down?

Yes. I promise you won't reach the 100 MB/second or so you will get on  
an IDE bus running the system and mysql server. A larger cache is  
good, though. I think mine was 8MB. Drives with bigger caches weren't  
even out when I bought it.

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