[mythtv-users] MythTV Hardware Upgrade Questions

[Aaron]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
>> People get far too hung up on "but SSDs wear out quickly".
>> They don't.  Especially not in a Mythtv box.
>
> Agreed, but I do have mine mounted using the "noatime" option.  That's
> something that's easy to do, reduces the number of writes, and has
> little negative impact.  That's the extent to which I worry about my
> SSDs wearing out.
>
> Eric
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I just wanted to update this thread. I moved all recordings to my 1TB
drive, and it recorded shows tonight, at 10pm it skipped, but it was
only for about a second; but it was much much much better than before.

I'll look into getting a SSD for my primary drive, see if that helps it further.

Thanks for all the replies, and help!