<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 14:55, Douglas Pearless <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz">Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
If speed is a concern, you may want to consider a SSD drive for speed for all but the recordings.<br>
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The start up times are very fast (my macbookpro goes from off to fully working in 17 sec and powers down in 3 secs)<br>
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I am seriously considering getting a 64GB SSD for my Mythbox (I use a box NAS for my recordings).<br></blockquote><div><br>If you're planning on powering your mythbox down an SSD is probably worthwhile. If it's going to be on 24/7 then don't bother.<br>
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> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 14:31 +1300, Brett Davidson wrote:<br>
>> Is the MythTV db usage that bad? If so, any other ideas?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>No, it's not that bad. So long as the database is on a seperate drive to the recordings you won't have any problems. If the box is purely for myth then having the database on the same drive a / will be fine.<br>
<br>You said this is going to start out as a combined fe/be. I count at least 6 disks (mirror 7200s for /, 10k for db, raid5 for recordings. How loud is this machine going to be? Personally I would have / and db on a single 7200. Take an image after it's all installed
and make daily db backups, put those on the raid5. Should be easy to recover if the 7200 dies.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>