[mythtv-users] Hard drive speed?

[Andre Newman MythTV]

> On 18 Nov 2016, at 04:46, Bob <mythtv at cox.net> wrote:
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> My hard drive may be failing, looking into getting a new one. I saw this question was asked before, however it was over 10 years (!) ago:
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> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/163754
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> The advice and thinking may have changed since then. I can get a 5TB 7200 RPM drive or a 6TB 5400 RPM ("NAS") hard drive for about the same price. Thoughts?

I used to always buy AV grade drives for MythTV, they cope better when recording several simultaneous HD channels. WD AV-GP Hitachi Cinema, Seagate Pipeline. I had a couple of WD AV-GP 3TB drives fail and I replaced them with a single 4TB HGST NAS drive and it seemed to work fine, no dropouts during multiple recordings to the same drive.

There’s certainly no point in getting a faster speed drive, it’s noisier, draws more current and the additional rotational speed (7200) is worthless to MythTV. Modern NAS graded drives seem to be well suited to media systems, I have several WD Red 4TB,6TB & 8TB, HGST 3TB,4TB &6TB NAS drives and they all seem to be good.

The NAS drives I have seem to handle loads of simultaneous recordings without issue, before I discovered the AV drives I was always tinkering trying to get things running smoothly and the NAS drives seem as trouble free as the AV drives.

Andre


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