[mythtv-users] Fast Quiet Sata drive?

[freedenizen]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
> Right now I'm running an Hitachi 2TB drive ( Deskstar 7K2000
> HDS722020ALA330) over usb on my living room backend/frontend. This is a
> really noisy drive.
>
> I would like to replace it with something quieter, but I do record as
> many as 4 HD Mpg streams at once, and can't afford to lose much performance.

Just want to point out, the USB bus is much slower then any hard drive
on the market, that is going to be your limiting factor, not the speed
of the drive, you can get a nice quiet slow HD and it will still be
able to saturate the usb bus.