[mythtv-users] Hard drive speed?

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at randomstring.org
Fri Nov 18 20:11:43 UTC 2016


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:54:08PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> ....
> > Seagate desktop drives especially have a very high failure rate,
> 
> Hard statistics please?  The most recent backblaze results (one
> of the few groups to publish their numbers) do not support that
> conclusion (although there have been absolutely terrible specific
> models from almost all manufacturers).  Of course, what matters
> to an individual is not the average, but the sample they have in
> their hands, and for that, statistics are meaningless.

Specifically, all the Seagate 3TB disks were awful. The current
2s and 4+ TB disks appear to be fine.

For the database, of course, a small SSD will do wonders.

-dsr-


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