[mythtv-users] Filesystem of choice for recording drive?

[Neil Salstrom]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
>>> I've gone with a 3TB Western Digital Purple drive.  Not much more than
>>> the Green but with a longer warranty.
>
> You'll probably want to turn off head parking on that.
>
> I do on all my Reds:
>
> https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdidle3-exe.18171/
>
> Doug
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According to the idle3-tools program the purple comes with the head
parking disabled.  Good or bad, I'm not sure.  All I know is at this
point I've got a purple drive and we'll see how long it lasts!  The
green was four years...

Neil