[mythtv-users] Hard drive recommendation

[Tobias Hofmann]

hi folks,

On 20.02.2004 23:14, steve at nexusuk.org wrote:

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> My 9 month old 80 gig drive recently died in my Myth box, so I sent it 
> back under warranty.  Rather than swapping the drive with a new 80, the 
> reseller has refunded me with the original amount of money.  Obviously 9 
> months ago, hard drives were rather more money, so I get to buy a nice 
> shiny new 120 or 160 gig for next to nothing.

nice! :)

> So, a couple of questions before I go buying a new drive:
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> 1. Any recommendations on a good drive for Myth? (quietness is a must)

even though I don,t have myth up and running yet, and thererfore cannot 
comment on the actual requirements from experience, I went for two 
ic35l180avv207-1 from hitachi/ibm (see 
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200211/20021127IC35L180AVV207_1.html 
for details), mainly for the three year warranty with the 8mb-version 
and the possibility to have it go into a quiet-mode. you might also want 
to check out http://storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php to 
get an idea on idle noise in db(A).

today, i'd go for a samsung sp1416n or c model (c=serial ata) - they got 
a very favourable test in the 3/04 c't magazine for both, performance 
and noise. if i can get the advantage of faster seek-times of 7200rpms 
at that noise level (0.9 sone max), why not? :) furthermore, bang for 
buck in germany is not bad, currently.

> 2. is 7200rpm actually useful?  The system has a single BTTV card, but I'm 
> planning to add a PVR350 at some point in the future, so it will 
> eventually be capturing 2 streams at once while paying another.  If I 
> don't get any real benefit from a 7200rpm drive then getting a 5400rpm one 
> would cut noise and heat (not to mention they're cheaper).

see other posts for 7200 comments - cutting noise with the sp1416n seems 
difficult to me, cutting heat would be 2deg celcius to the sv1604n, 
according to http://storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php ... :)

> 3. Not really related to the drive itself, but does anyone know where I 
> can get rubber drive mountings?  I don't want the full-blown drive 
> enclosures with heatsinks on them, etc.  Just some rubber mountings to 
> bolt the drive down with.

no experience from my side.

hth, greets, tobi... :)

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