[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 21:09:43 UTC 2008


>> You would be setting yourself up for a database corruption nightmare
>> should something go wrong - like loss of power or memory corruption.
>> Then again, I don't have to recover your database so I say go for it!
>
> Also, if the drive's data rate is slow, the last thing you want to to is
> try to write in bursts.  It helps somewhat on mechanical drives because
> it reduces seeking, but it won't help a flash drive's speed any.
>
The data rate is low but I seriously doubt Mythtv will be adding 5MB/s
of data to the database and most flash drives will do 10 to 20MB/s in
bursts.

John


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