[mythtv-users] new rig ... help with specs

[Ian Clark]

2009/9/19 Michelle Dupuis <support at ocg.ca>

> From experience, avoid ATI cards.  As well, check out VDPAU which is
> Nvidia...moves all deinterlacing to the grpahics card and more...
>

Be careful with older nVidia stuff, they had major packaging issues a while
back, newer stuff should be ok though.

ATI onboard graphics are absolutly fantastic.... unless you want to use
myth, although there seem to be more favourable reports with
later/opensource ATI drivers. It's still really nVidia for myth though.


>
> On hard disks, I have great experience with Seagate in servers - but the
> past year I've read about more problems with seagate combined with reduced
> Seagate warranty.  That worries me...
>
> For HDs I would recommend Hitachi, reliable, well priced and fairly decent
RMA procedure too. (A friend had a few of the deathstars in a RAID a few
years ago, they failed 1 by 1. :) )

Whilst home usage, and the small sample set of my friends can't really
provide any definitive statistics, I have (currently) got 11 HDs in regular
use, 9 of them are HGST (well, ok a couple of the older ones are actually
IBM they're that old. ;) ), 6 of these are in my home server which is on
24/7.

Seagate get good reviews but I've personally had mixed experiences. (My myth
box has a 300G seagate which is fine, but I had a 1.2G one years ago that
was funny, ditto the 8G one I bought a bit later on. Lots of people have had
issues with the latest 1.5T ones.)

I'd avoid Western Digital and any of the 'cheap' brands (Maxtor and Samsung
spring to mind.)

I've had little experience with Fujitsu, only ever owning 2 of them. One
failed, one is still running in my main PC with OS X on it. (It's a laptop
drive too.)

Ian
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