[mythtv-users] SSDs and Myth frontends ?

[Brent Bolin]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> Someone just gave me a 64GB SSD (probably buttering me up for some other favor in the future, like building him a Myth
> system).
>
> I was thinking about replacing the 2.5" HDD that came with my Revo with it.
>
> I don't really see any advantage, other than power consumption, heat and reliability.
>
> But I have read a few things about the net about SSDs causing long pauses, but of course these were Windows users, and I
> know Windows is not optimized for SSDs, and there are some parameters you can tweak in Linux to handle them better (like
> which scheduler, mounting with noatime, not swapping to it etc.).
>
> Anybody see any reasons to not go with an SSD for a frontend? As I said, I'm not looking for any great improvement over a
> conventional SSD, but my other option is to netboot the frontend, which would be even quieter, draw even less power and
> make even less heat than an SSD.
>
> Hmmm, seems like I am talking myself into netbooting :-)
>
> Although 64Gb is large enough to hold an OS and a Myth B/E, I don't see any reason to try the SSD in my BE, it's already
> spinning many drives anyway, and is located in the garage so noise is not a factor.
>
> If it matters, it's a (relatively) cheap Kingston unit, I've seen them around for $120. I know Linus says to not buy
> anything but an Intel SSD, but he probably has more money than I do, and may get hardware for free.
>
>
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Silent running.  Less heat.  Boots quickly.  Haven't done any of the
net boot options


 df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              27G  7.4G   18G  30% /
none                  750M  244K  749M   1% /dev
none                  754M     0  754M   0% /dev/shm
none                  754M   96K  754M   1% /var/run
none                  754M     0  754M   0% /var/lock
none                  754M     0  754M   0% /lib/init/rw
myth:/music           1.4T  680G  652G  52% /var/lib/mythtv/music
myth:/pictures        1.4T  680G  652G  52% /var/lib/mythtv/pictures



[    1.736214] ata1.00: ATA-8: KINGSTON SSDNOW 30GB, AJXA0202, max UDMA/100
[    1.736222] ata1.00: 58626288 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[    1.736476] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    1.736713] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      KINGSTON
SSDNOW  AJXA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5