[mythtv-users] Anyone using SSD for long term storage?

[Andrew Leech]

On 23/07/2014 10:17 AM, jedi wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 07:34:09PM -0500, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 07/22/14 17:07, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>> On 22/07/14 21:01, David Madsen wrote:
>>>> Personally, I think SSDs are overkill for recording storage.  The cost/GB
>>>> ratio is still orders of magnitude higher than HDDs, and the benefits you
>>>> get from a SSD (fast random access) don't really match what you need for
>>>> recordings (decent sequential performance).  Even the slowest HDDs these
>>>> days are still fast enough to record and watch multiple simultaneous
>>>> streams, since they are still large sequential operations, just
>>>> interleaved
>>>> with each other.  Also, the bitrates required for recording and playback
>>>> are relatively low compared to the sequential throughput of HDDs
>>>> available
>>>> today.
>>>>
>>>> Hosting the OS/system/database/metadata on an SSD does make more sense
>>>> however since those items will benefit much more from the higher random
>>>> throughput, and do not take large amounts of space.
>>>>
>>>> If you're worried about losing data from drive failures, I think backups
>>>> and/or drive mirroring are a better method to managing that.
>>>>
>>> Don't forget other important advantages of SSDs: No moving parts. Much
>>> lower power consumption - less heat. No vibration. Often much smaller
>>> form factors - I've seen SSDs as mini-PCIe cards.
>>>
>> All of those are only advantages if you are trying to make a combined
>> FE/BE that sits in front of your TV, and it's either going to be a low
>> capacity system, or cost is no consequence.
>      I currently have a 4 disk USB drive enclosure that houses my current
> disk set for MythTV recordings. It's full of spinning rust and it is quiet
> enough to sit next to my primary frontend. The performance of the unit kind
> of sucks but it's fast enough for what it needs to do. If anything is a real
> problem, it's all of the blinky lights on the front of the thing

I find blue tack works wonders for blinky lights, you can adjust the 
thickness to still see some of the light if desired, and it's less 
visually intrusive that masking tape!

- Andrew