[mythtv-users] Is an IDE hard drive enough?

Matthew Geller mgeller at mn.rr.com
Mon Mar 1 21:30:33 EST 2004


Backend server
Dual P2-400 with 512MB of Ram
2x Hauppauge 250's

Considering my options for disk.  I want to be able to record 2 shows while
watching live TV on a front-end box.

The math is pretty simple, 3 x 12MBits/sec = 4.5 MB/sec which is easily
attainable by IDE (35-40MB/sec on most drives with 8MB of cache).  But will
the 4-5ms seek time kill drive performance writing 2 streams and reading
one.

-Matt



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