[mythtvnz] New list member - Hardware recommendations

[criggie]

On 12/01/12 18:54, Steve Hodge wrote:
> If you're going to be recording a lot of stuff
> simultaneously then perhaps having MySQL on a separate drive might be
> important...

Why?  The mysql output is a single record to the recordings table, a 
single record in the recorded table, and maybe a few state updates that 
the tuner is in use.

The bulk of the data is streamed to your hdd, but its steady rather than 
bursty, and its not more than a few Mbit/second.

.: a mythbox needs space for recordings and enough bandwidth to stream 
those recordings to the disk, over anything else.


Mine's got a 40 GB drive with the OS, two 1TB drives for recordings, and 
a separate "refurbished" 250 GB drive I use for backups.
The 40 has 73001 hours of poweron time (8.327 years)


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Criggie

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