[mythtv-users] some more RAID and HD speed questions
Steve Hodge
stevehodge at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 23:00:56 UTC 2006
On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, its running great, is there a way I can tell what my max speeds are?
hdparm -t
I'm sure there are more sophisticated benchmark programs around as well.
> also is there anything that can limit drive use in a similar way as nice can
> limit cpu usage?
Do a search in the archives, I'm sure there have been threads
discussing powering down the drive when not in use. It's also a pretty
common requirement for laptops so there is definitely ways to do this.
> I'd like to be able to copy some shows over the network to my other machine
> but to limit this such that no write operations are missed.
I wouldn't worry too much. The disk throughput requirements of MythTV
are actually pretty low compared to the capabilities of modern
machines.
Steve
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