<br><tt><font size=2>> Disks:<br>
> OS/MySQL: 80GB WD Caviar Blue 7200 RPM<br>
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> Data/Video: 1TB WD Caviar Green<br>
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> I'm planning on splitting the OS disk into 2 35GB partitions (with<br>
> whatever is leftover for swap) so that I can have production (i.e.<br>
> family use) SW on one partition and a test partition in which I can<br>
> try upgrades and such.</font></tt>
<p><font size=3> I think you would get more use out of 2 x 1 TB disks
(or 1.5 or 2TB), mirrored (md) and partitioned and possibly using LVM for
flexibility in migration and/or adding more disks and expanding filesystems
non-disruptively. Your OS wont be thrashing swap or doing a lot of
IO to your OS filesystems (except some small amount of IO to /var to the
mythtv databases and I've never found this to be ain issue, even with 4
tuners- though they were all digital nor analog YMMV for analog), so IMHO
you would be wasting the IO capability of your OS disk. There was
a good post in the last week or so about about moving your Mysql tables
for Mythtv from /var to /home to keep your OS data isolated from your user
data.</font>
<p><font size=3>Cheers,</font>
<p><font size=3>Indulis</font>