[mythtv-users] Harddrive

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:22, Yann Lehmann wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
> > 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 $$$ :-)
>
> Thank's for the advice.
>
> I know that the 40GB partition for video files will not last long once
> the myth system is set up. The 8GB drive is just laying around and will
> be used only by the ringbuffer file.
>
> I will buy a new big harddrive (may be an external one with firewire)
> when I am sure everything works fine.
>
> Yann

be forwarned that with LiveTV changes in SVN it will prbly make sense to have 
your ringbuffer on the same drive as your recordings. The new live TV allows 
for easy recording of what your watching, having them on seperate drives will 
require copying the file over, which may not be a huge overhead, but why 
bother when you don't have to? So when you do upgrade to a larger drive they 
will all want to go on it. 

-- 
Steve