[mythtv-users] 1TB+ drive recommendation?

[Gavin Peters]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:00:42AM -0600, Gerald Brandt wrote:
> 
> ----- "Gavin Peters" <gavin at ytz.ca> wrote: 
> > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:20:28PM -0700, Brian Phillips wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 121 117 000 Old_age > > Always - 26 > > Do you have any specific hard drive cooling? Or is it simply a matter of > case fans and the airflow created? > I use Seagate green/power-saving HDs in my machine, four of them in RAID5, and I get somewhat reasonable results too: $ hddtemp /dev/sd[abcd] /dev/sda: ST31500541AS: 31???C /dev/sdb: ST31500541AS: 31???C /dev/sdc: ST31500541AS: 32???C /dev/sdd: ST31500541AS: 30???C At the moment, the machine is recording two HD streams from my HDHR, and running two commercial flagging jobs. Hardly idle, though not heavily loaded. - Gavin 
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> 
> not bad! 
> 
> I have: 
> sudo hddtemp /dev/sd[abcde] 
> /dev/sda: ST3250410AS: 40??C 
> /dev/sdb: ST31000340AS: 41??C 
> /dev/sdc: ST31000340AS: 39??C 
> /dev/sdd: ST31000340AS: 41??C 
> /dev/sde: WDC WD1001FALS-00E3A0: 39??C 
> 

What a difference 1300 RPM makes!  About 10 degrees C, in our case.

- Gavin