<span></span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Yann Lehmann <<a href="mailto:aristide@vtxmail.ch">aristide@vtxmail.ch</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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I will soon buy a 500GB harddisk for my mythtv system, but would appreciate<br>
any advice or recommendation on which brand and/or model I should take or leave.<br>
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The drive will sit in a server in the basement, so noise is not really an issue.<br>
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It will contain two partitions: one for "normal" data (home-directories for<br>
3-4 users) and the rest will be for the mythtv-stuff (most of it<br>
tv-recordings in sd, but also some ripped cd's and dvd's).<br>
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<br>
Thanks for any advice and regards<br>
Yann<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br><br>I bought one of these:<br><br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148288</a><br><br>about a month ago, and I've been quite pleased with it. I used it for a while by itself, and it was quite fast. Right now, I have it in an LVM with an older, slower, 500gb drive, but no problems to speak of. The newegg user ratings are not as good as when I bought it, but from what I can tell, it's pretty good as long as it's not DOA. <br>
<br>I've had very good luck with Segate Barracuda drives. I use this to store DVD rips, Music, etc, and I use an older, 120gb IDE Barracuda as my main recording drive. It has served me well for 6 months of exclusive Myth usage (after 5 years of happy file storage service before that). <br>
<br>so that's my $.02. Happy shopping.<br><br>- Josh<br>