[mythtv-users] Newbie questions

[Andrew Dodd]

Quoting steve at nexusuk.org:


> I'm unsure if 7200rpm drives are actually needed - I use a 7200rpm drive, 
> but when you actually add up the datarates of everything, it doesn't 
> actually add up to a huge number (lets say you record at 6Mbps, 2 
> recorders and 1 player at the same time come to only 18Mbps)..  Similarly 
> I wouldn't expect seek times to have much impact...  avoiding the use of 
> 7200rpm drives would reduce heat a noise quite considerably.

Don't forget that 7200RPM not only improves transfer rate, but it also improves
seek times somewhat (less time to wait for data to spin around and pass the head
after a seek)

Plus 5400 RPM drives often come with slower heads too.

Once you're bouncing between 3-4 locations on disk, raw transfer rate goes down.
 WAY down.