[mythtv-users] Australian components

Phil Wild philwild at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 03:59:09 UTC 2009


ssd storage has a limited number of write times prior to failure. Not
sure how this would be impacted in a PVR type environment with
frequent overwriting of large areas of the disk (continual
timeshifting).

I am sure this will be overcome at some stage though....

Cheers

Phil

2009/1/7 Brian Wood <beww at beww.org>:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009 19:22:37 Craig Sanders wrote:
>
>>
>> i can't wait until you can get 500GB or 1TB SSDs for a comparable price
>> to today's HDDs.  AFAIAC, the sooner hard disks die and vanish like
>> 1.44MB floppies, the better...over the years, hard disks have been the
>> component most likely to fail (i don't expect to get more than a year or
>> two out of them)
>
> I agree with your sentiment about rotating platter drives, I'll be happy to
> see them go, but in my experience they are not the most likely components to
> fail.
>
> That honor goes to fans. I have had more units fail due to fan failure, and
> the resultant thermal problems, than any other type of failure.
>
> The manufacturers seem to love saving a few cents by using the cheapest fans
> they can possibly find. Personally I'd be happy to pay a dollar or two more
> for some decent Rotrons or other well-made ball-bearing fans, but most makers
> do not offer me that option.
>
>
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