[mythtv-users] Newbie

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
>  the limit
> you tend to hit first is the ability of the disk to seek back and
> forth quickly enough. Streaming rate to or from the disk is almost
> irrelevant unless you only have one stream going.
> Yes modern drives are good, but it's still fairly easy to exceed their limits.

What are you doing that could possibly exceed the seek rate for a
mythTV recordings disk?  The mysql database is often seek bound, but
streaming  a half dozen or so recordings?  That doesn't make any sense
unless you're trying to run your backend with 16MB of RAM or have a
seriously fragmented filesystem.

Eric