[mythtvnz] Has anyone seen the new Zotac units?

[Daniel Giddens]

If you are building a new front end and you had the choice 10 seconds or
32 seconds what would you choose?
Also if you compare compact flash to SSD then longevity and space ...
chalk and cheese.
There is no comparison unless you are building on a tight budget....
even then SSD's are low 200's, SATA and work in any MB.

Within 2 years all drives will be SSD's, next to no power consumption,
no moving parts, 5-6 times the speed. Limited no only by size and price
and these are going up and down in the usual directions like all IT
hardware does.


On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:18 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Stephen Worthington
> <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:10:42 +1200, you wrote:
> >
> >>If you use an Intel SSD (solid state drive) it will be silent and boot
> >>in around 10 seconds. I bought 40gb versions for around $225 ish ex GST
> >>from memory. You want the Intel versions as other brands have
> >>historically had longevity and performance issues (these issues may be
> >>fixed now but why risk it).
> >
> > Bootup time is no longer much of a problem with 10.4 anyway.  I have a
> > test install on my laptop (5400 rpm drive) and it boots all the way
> > into mythfrontend (from the grub menu) in 32 seconds.
> 
> 22 extra seconds is still a lifetime for a "consumer appliance". Then
> again we are taught that you should never have to reboot a linux
> box...
> 
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