[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Joel Wiramu Pauling]

Please note the WD "green" drives when in Raid or LVM extents mode wear out
the heads very quickly unless you flash a firmware hack.

This is a bug to the way the drives park the heads you can see it by the
increased cycle rate on drives with smartctl... I recomend that if you are
not comfortable flashing low level vendor provided firmware blobs to these
drives that you get "something else" if you intend to use them in any sort
of always on raid setup.

-JoelW

On 9 October 2011 14:35, <rob at webworxshop.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Thanks for all the hardware recommendations. For those that suggested
> setting up separate back end and front end systems, unfortunately this
> isn't an option at the moment as the amount of re-wiring required
> probably wouldn't be appreciated by my landlords.
>
> Based on the requirements of myth, I'm now not considering a quad core,
> which will save me a considerable amount of power. The CPU I'm
> considering is the AMD A6 3500 [0]. I haven't made a decision on a
> motherboard yet and I'll be looking for a fanless graphics card which
> can do VDPAU (it doesn't need to do much more than that). I also have a
> case in mind [1].
>
> In terms of storage, the recommended green drives have been my
> preferred drive since they came out. I've always used Western Digital
> drives and have never had a problem with them. I'm probably going to set
> up a RAID 1 setup with 2x2TB drives just in case though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
> [0]
>
> http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=CPUAMD3505&name=AMD-A6-3500-X3-Core-2.1GHz-3-x-1MB-L2-Cache-Socket
> [1]
>
> http://www.computerlounge.co.nz/components/componentview-specs.asp?partid=10484
>
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:41:59 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:16:04 +1300, you wrote:
> >
> >>On 5/10/2011 10:23 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >>
> >>> Whether the wakeups work or not seems to depend on what motherboard
> >>> and BIOS you have.  They mostly say they support the scheduled
> >>> wakeup
> >>> feature, but only some actually work.  I tried it with my MythTV
> >>> box,
> >>> and it never woke up even when I was manually setting the wakeup
> >>> time
> >>> in the BIOS settings.
> >>
> >>Silly question, the motherboard battery was ok?
> >
> > Yes, the motherboard was brand new at the time, and the CMOS settings
> > have been fine for years since then.  I did try clearing the CMOS
> > data
> > to see if that helped, but no, it didn't.
> >
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