[mythtv-users] Notebook hard drives

[Scott Blomfield]

I just bought a new drive for my desktop, and I still have over $300 in
other parts to buy for my Myth box... adding another $60 to that price
is not exactly trivial. The 20GB drive is a standard 3 1/2" 7200 RPM
ATA66 IDE drive with a 2MB Cache; I think that it is more than up to the
task if the notebook drive just won't cut it. 

I just thought I'd ask if anyone had any personal experience, given that
I already own both drives. Failing that, I'll just try both and see for
myself.

Thanks for your thoughts, they're appreciated... just not quite possible
for me at this time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Johnson [mailto:bjohnson at johnson-engineering.ca] 
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:27 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Notebook hard drives

I only know the generalities:
1. notebook hard drives are slower than desktop ones
2. you need an adapter to connect notebook drives to a desktop machine
(about $20 ea
so $40 total)
3. desktop drives are down to about $1.00/GB for 7200 rpm ide drives


so consider getting a new 60 GB (or bigger) HD



Scott Blomfield (ScottB at Cavps.com) wrote:
>
>Does anyone have any experience with notebook hard drives as the
primary
>storage for Myth?
>
>I have two drives, a 40Gb notebook (Hitachi DK23DA-40F) and a 20GB
>Western Digital Caviar 7200RPM standard drive.
>I would prefer the increased disk space for more videos if possible,
but
>I thought I heard somewhere that most notebook drives are only 5400RPM
>or lower, and would not hold up to this kind of access. Anyone with
some
>real world experience with MythTV and notebook drives?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott
>

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