[mythtv-users] Sony Vaio, perhaps?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Apr 3 16:04:22 UTC 2009


On Friday 03 April 2009 09:49:24 Marc Randolph wrote:
> Howdy Dan,
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Daniel Dunning <dan3501 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive - This is marketed specifically
> > for video playback.
>
> Such a drive may actually have worse performance and less cache than
> their other drives, or that of a competitor.  The term "video
> playback" is simply something that a marketing droid slapped on
> somewhere along the way to help sell their products.

I thought the "A/V rated" drives were an attempt to quell the complaints about 
drives deciding to do a thermal recal during a readout of a long (A/V) file, 
resulting in glitches.

But I agree the term is meaningless, at lesst today.

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