[mythtv-users] LiveTv and disk endurance....

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Silvano BATTISTI
<silvano.battisti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> LiveTv puzzles me: how does LiveTv affect harddisk life?
> I think that continuous disk write-read accesses can dramatically
> reduce disk life.
> Do you have any figure about the life reduction for a disk when
> watching TV for about 2 to 3 hours per day?
>
> Best Regards
> Silvano BATTISTI
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Compressed digital video is trivial amounts of information.  If your
disk can't handle the reading and writing of no more than 12-18 GB a
day, you need to find a new manufacturer :).

In short, with modern Hard Drives and their halfway decent MBTF you
stand a decent chance of having something like the PSU go out long
before the disk.  I say that ignoring the obvious recent problems with
1/1.5/2 TB drives which have nothing to do with disk wear and
everything to do with broken hardware/firmware.

Robert