[mythtv-users] Dec 2008 - State of the Art - Hard Drive Recommendations?

[Bryan Frye]

I use Seagate Barracuda 750Gb 7200rpm SATA.  4 of them.  Woot had them on
sale a few months ago for $59.99.  I have a 120Gb 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda
SATA I use for the OS.

They are setup as 5 individual drives.

The 120 is partitioned for OS use only.

3 of the 750's are setup in a storage group for DVD ripping (about 14% full
at the moment), no RAID.  I let MythTV handle what goes where.

1 of the 750's is setup for live recording.  On average, it sits around
350-450Gb full.

The 750's are still fairly new, so I can't comment on their reliability yet,
but I haven't had a single problem yet.

The 120 is about 2yrs old and I haven't had any problems with it yet.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Sandy Walsh <swalsh at impathnetworks.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Seems like this is a question that occurs pretty regularly, so let's take a
> snapshot of the "state-of-the-art" for hard drive selection. I'd love to
> hear all of your opinions on the following.
>
> What would you say are the most important criteria for selecting a PVR hard
> drive?
>
> 1. Is it Interface? PATA? SATA? ATA-100, 133, 150, 300?
>
> 2. Capacity? Is it simply Gigabytes per Dollar (G/$) or do drives just get
> flaky over a certain size?
>
> 3. Is it Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)? Is this a meaningful metric
> anymore?
>
> 4. What about RAID? Good or Bad? Good for peace of mind, Bad for
> performance? Recommendations for/against using RAID? What about software
> raid (useless?)
>
> 5. Rotational Speed? Is it a factor?
>
> 6. Average Seek Time? Do technologies like Western Digital Intelliseek make
> any difference or just get in the way?
>
> 7. Vendors? Seagate? Western Digital? Hitachi? Samsung? Any warrenty horror
> stories? Others to consider?
>
> 8. Cache size? Since this is mostly a Write operation activity does cache
> really affect performance? How important is a large cache?
>
> What else?
>
> Ultimately ... what do you recommend and why?
>
> Thanks in advance everyone! This will greatly assist my Christmas shopping
> list!
>
> Cheers,
> Sandy
>
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