[mythtvnz] Hardware Recommendations

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Forgot to add, it is a good idea to keep your database and operating
system on a separate drive to where the recordings are going, and an
ssd sounds like a great idea.