[mythtv-users] Speed/disk access, multiple tuners, multiple myth drives

[Paul Bender]

Bobby Gill wrote:
> My Mythbox specs are a PVR-150 and drive is a WD Sata 320gb 16mb cache.
> 
> Currently if the tuner is recording and I try to watch a previous 
> recording at the same time, I notice slowdown in responsiveness for 
> things like rewinding/forwarding and whatnot. Now if I add another 
> tuner, would that make things smoother for playback?
> 
> Or another scenario I'm pondering to get things smoove is that I'm 
> thinking of adding a Seagate 32mb cache drive. Now could I have Myth set 
> up so that it records LiveTV to one drive and keeps recordings on 
> another?So if it were to be recording Live TV while I'm watching a 
> previous recording, surely things would be faster.
> 
> Just a bit confused on this, trying to get it a lil smoother as even 
> deleting files on the drive causes playback to pause, and I have the 
> delete files slowly option in mythtv-setup checked.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob

Are your MySQL database and recording/livetv directory on the save 
drive? If so, then you might get the best performance increase by moving 
the MySQL database to a different drive.