[mythtv-users] MythTV Hardware Upgrade Questions

[Andre]

On 29 Jun 2011, at 01:29, Julius Roberts wrote:

> On 29 June 2011 02:09, Andre <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'm waiting for the right moment personal finance and technology wise to upgrade the 120GB SSD in my laptop, then the
>> laptop SSD can be used in my myth server for OS & DB :-)
> 
> Wanting SSD speed and HDD capacity i too was in your situation.  For
> my desktop i recently I installed a hybrid
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive.) SSD/HDD 2.5" device from
> Seagate called the Momentus XT 500gb.  I'm not booting off it, i have
> a proper SSD for that, but using this for data storage.  It's not
> quite as fast as my old 10,000rpm raptor, but not far off.

I know these drives, several friends have them in laptops, a very good compromise. Problem is I already have a second 750GB drive in the laptop, if Seagate produced a 750GB or 1TB hybrid I would have bought one. What I really need is enough space to have a couple of ~40GB VM images on the SSD.


Andre

> 
> The thing that sold it for me was that it was significantly cheaper (i
> paid $150au) than either a large capacity SSD or a fast SATA disk, yet
> approached both in terms of speed and capacity
> (http://www.anandtech.com/print/3734)  YMMV of course :)
> 
> -- 
> Kind regards, Jules
> 
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> over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
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