[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 18, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Mailing Lists wrote:
> Been doing this for 20+ years too and I completely agree.  A boot
> partition should be a physical drive just big enough to hold only  
> the OS
> and then mount your data and home anywhere you like.

I do this on my systems at work, and I agree it's a best practice,  
but at home I just can't justify the extra noise, expense, and power  
consumption of a separate hard disk just to hold boot, root, and  
swap.  Actually, at work almost all of the machines boot from a  
hardware RAID 1 mirror.

You have to remember, too, that Jay is really serious about this  
stuff.  He's remarked before that he doesn't trust PATA or SATA  
drives, only SCSI.  I can sort of see his point, but I find it hard  
to justify the cost when serially-attached-SCSI disks cost roughly  
*five times* what SATA drives of the same size do.