[mythtv-users] New system hardware suggestions

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 13:51:17 UTC 2006


On 7/16/06, Kari Salmela <kari.salmela at lanwan.fi> wrote:
>
> There are new SATA II disks in market from WD, Seagate etc. Anything
> special there to consider? WD Caviar RE2
> (WD3200YS) seems a good choice in theory?


The WD drive is a fine drive; I'm currently using one, but not for MythTV.
Something that may or may not be an issue is that WD drives (at least in the
US) only have a 1 year warranty.  They do offer an extension to 3 years for
a nominal fee.  Seagate drives have a 5 year warranty.

Carl Fongheiser
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