[mythtv-users] Recommendation for SSD boot drive

Joey Morris rjmorris.list at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 14:52:42 UTC 2013


David Knight <dlknight at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:45:15PM -0000:
> On Fri, January 25, 2013 2:51 am, Joey Morris wrote:
> > If fast boot is your primary concern, then I second Raymond's
> > suggestion of trying to get suspend/resume to work. I have an SSD in
> > one of my frontends, but I still suspend/resume instead of turning off
> > and on. From the moment I press the power button on my remote, the
> > system wakes from S3 and displays the menu in about 3 seconds (and not
> > the home menu, but the menu I was on when I suspended). After powering
> > on by pressing the power button on the case, it takes about 20-25
> > seconds to display the home menu.
> 
> I also suspend / resume instead of shutdown, however my resume takes
> almost same amount of time as startup from cold. This is mainly because I
> have to unload the DVB drivers for my TV cards as they did not use to
> behave after being suspended. Are you using DVB devices and if so have you
> noticed any issues with hibernate / suspend.
> 
> I will be looking at this again shortly as last time I tested would have
> been several revisions of Fedora / Kernel / Mythtv ago - maybe 5 years ago
> even - thats how old my Mythtv architecture is - although it is now
> running Fedora 16 / Mythtv 0.26.

No, I don't have any DVB devices. This is a frontend-only machine with
just an SSD and an Nvidia card.


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