[mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?

[Kevin Kuphal]

2009/3/30 Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net>

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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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>> I'd just network boot, but I like to run the DB on the same drive as the
>> OS,
>> which I suspect is what most folks do. I'd rather not slow down the DB.
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>> Never thought I'd see 40GB as the smallest drive I can buy.
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> I hear you. I tried network booting. While I can get it to work fine, I
> couldn't get the NVidia drivers to reliably work. They would work when I
> installed them, but after a reboot I was back to the fail-safe X. I finally
> got sick of messing with it and switched to the USB flash stick. It's not as
> fast as a modern HD, but it keeps up well compared to the 5400RPM drive I
> just installed. And they cost less than $20. I've only been running it for
> about 6 months, but I haven't seen any issues from wear. It only needs to be
> updated once in a while and I have it mounted with noatime. The logs
> probably hit the flash harder than anything else on the system, and I could
> use a remote syslogd I guess.
>

For me it ends up with "who cares"?  At $20 a pop, if it lasts for 1, 2 or 3
years before wear destroys it, I've gotten more than my money's worth.  Just
"dd" the flash card to an image once in a while to keep a good backup of it
and when it dies, "dd" the image back to a new drive.

Kevin
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