[mythtv-users] Comments sought on combined FE/BE box spec

[Travis Tabbal]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michael PARKER <michael.parker at st.com>wrote:

>
> 2) Forgive my ignorance, but what advantage would a separate 80GB OS disk
> give over a partitioned
> 2TB disk? At 3Gb/s and with 32MB of disk cache, I'm assuming the usual
> advantage of idependent drive
> accesses is no longer significant. Another disk is possible in the case,
> but I'm keen not to
> increase power consumption and noise further. I did think a solid state
> disk for the OS would be
> nice, provided frequently accessed stuff, swap etc. was put on the 2TB.
>


First, you don't really think your HDD can stream 3Gb/s do you? It can't.