[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[jedi at mishnet.org]

> David Whyte wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ray Lischner <linux at tempest-sw.com>
>> wrote:
>>>  I decided to use a conventional SATA disk drive for my FE. It's cheap,
>>>  easy, and completely silent because the system doesn't touch the disk
>>>  once it's up and running. I don't see the disk LED light during normal
>>>  playback activities.
>>
>> Yeah, I am leaning towards this now.  I completely forgot about the
>> write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with
>> the IDE adaptor and the like.  I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western
>> Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.  I doubt myth will
>> touch the disk after boot up anyways if I put 1GB (or more) of RAM in
>> it seeing how this is a FE only (at this stage).
>>
> If the system won't touch the disk after you've booted it, whay are you
> not
> running diskless and booting off the network? That means less noise and
> less
> power usage (front end) and usage of resources you already have to provide
> the
> boot info (the back end).
>
> Although it can be a bit of a fiddle, depending on distro and

...that would be the key here.

    If the system isn't going to touch the disk much after bootup
then the issue of drive noise is likely not as big of a problem as
all of that to begin with. Installing a system and then pointing
most of it to NFS shares is a lot simpler than any sort of net boot.

> circumstances,
> remote booting is not that difficult. There is plenty of Myth-related info
> on
> how to do it on the wiki/web.
>
> Mike Perkins