[mythtvnz] About to install Myth for the first time.

[Brett Davidson]

Steve Hodge wrote :
>I assume you're talking about the limited lifecycle for >writes? It's not a problem in practice, see e.g. >http://storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html. Microsoft >actually recommend that the Windows page file be kept on an >SSD.

Nah - as Hadley commented on, some (at our end of the market) are not so hot on sustained write speed.

>As far as the db goes, I should probably mention that despite >what I said earlier about keeping it on a seperate disk from >recordings, I've been running a single disk for /, db and >recordings for about 5 years (max 3 recordings at once + comm >detect). Never had any problems with performance.

Ah. Then the seperate 10K dis is history! That will free up another drive slot for my ever-increasing collection of rubbish. ;-)