<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Peter VanDerWal <<a href="mailto:peter@vanderwal.us">peter@vanderwal.us</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I've been reading recently that using ordinary hard drives in DVRs can<br>cause them to wear out rapidly. It has something to do with the heads<br>
constantly moving back and forth between reading and writing data streams<br>while watching LiveTV, etc.<br><br>Does MythTV buffer this data at all? I.e. does it keep 3-4 seconds worth<br>of data in memory so ther hard drive does constantly have to switch<br>
between writing ther data and going back and reading it three seconds<br>later?<br>If it doesn't do this, is there anyway I can set this up?<br><br>I know the HDD has a built in buffer, but I don't think it's big enough to<br>
hold 3-4 seconds worth of data,or what ever the minimum is when watching<br>LiveTV.<br><br>On a related note, does anyone know of a good HDD optimized for DVR use?<br>Preferably a quiet one?</blockquote>
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<div>Seagate (which is the only mfg I'll buy for the warranty) makes a DB35 line specifically for DVRs</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/db35_series/">http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/consumer_electronics/db35_series/</a></div>
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<div>Whether that truly is necessary for Myth or makes any difference, I doubt it. My drives don't seem to wear out any faster with Myth than any other system I've used.</div>
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<div>Kevin</div></div>