[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:29 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> On 09/10/11 16:13, AlanP wrote:
>> At 01:57 p.m. 9/10/2011, you wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Just did a brief google, and WD's website is very cagey about the actual
>> speed of the Green series. They claim that it will perform "comparably" to
>> a 7200rpm drive...
>>
>> Maybe I'm a cynic, but it seems a bit like weasel words to me.
>>
> Yes, they won't say outright how fast they are but IMHO it's irrelevant.
> They're fast enough for myth usage but also quiet and low power. They
> use a clever system to speed up the drive only as necessary. I _think_
> maybe I read something once that said they run anywhere between 5400 and
> 7200 rpm depending on demand. I can't say I've ever seen any disk
> problems even with multiple simultaneous recordings and play back at the
> same time.

There are many people on mythtv-users from all over the world using
these drives and they are fine for quite a few simultaneous recordings
and playbacks. Some of the people on that list run insanely busy
systems.