[mythtv-users] Harddrive

[Brian Wood]

Well 2 IDE drives on one channel will not slow things down more than  
it does on most systems, just don't put an optical or Zip drive on  
the same channel as an HDD.

I am curious though, where are you going to store recorded programs?  
Looks like all your IDE channels are used up. Unfortunately in this  
day and age an 8GB drive is considered by some to be a waste of an  
IDE channel, but I guess those folks have a lot of $$$ :-)


Brian Wood
beww at beww.org



On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Yann Lehmann wrote:

> My planned MythTV-System is taking form, with following drives already
> in the system (1 Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE and Kubuntu installed):
>
> - 1 60GB Harddrive as hda, for system and data (master on first IDE)
> - 1 100MB IDE internal Zip drive as hdc (master on second IDE)
> - 1 dvd-rom as hdd (slave on second IDE).
>
> I have a spare harddrive (8GB) that I plan to use for the  
> ringbuffer file.
>
> As I only have one Ultra-ATA 66 compatible IDE-cable, I would connect
> the 8GB drive as slave on the first IDE-controller. Will the two
> harddrives slow down themselves, or is it accurate to plug the drives
> like this ?
>
> I can also live without the ZIP-drive if it makes any sense.
>