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

[D Banerjee]

I'm still not sure why everyone thinks really fast drives are necessary.
Really, get the slowest, quietest, coolest drive you can, and it will still
be much faster than it needs to be.

I've done LVM PVE moves to a new disk while recording, not a single hiccup.
(Migrating the partition to a new disk without downtime).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Geller" <mgeller at mn.rr.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:30 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] Is an IDE hard drive enough?


> 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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