[mythtv-users] Recommendation for SSD boot drive

[jedi]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:21:52AM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/21/2013 16:01, John Drescher wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Fred Watt<fredwattmythtv at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>Anyone recommend a super fast ssd for mythfrontend/slave boot? Currently use
> >>a 13Gb partition, but I would welcome fast start up times.
> >
> >I recommend for good wear leveling to get a 64GB or 128GB.
> 
> That seems a bit excessive. A MythTV install is only going to take a
> few GB, even on modern bloated distros. The only writing it's going
> to be doing is log data and the theme cache, and the occasional
> system update. I doubt you would see 128GB of writes over the life
> of the system, certainly not the thousand times that to necessitate
> a drive that large for the purposes of wear leveling.

   For a frontend, the cheapest SSD that you can lay your hands on will 
likely be more than big enough. The storage footprint of a frontend is
about 4G.