[mythtv-users] What keeps causing "prebuffering pauses" ?!?!?!

[John P. Poet]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andrew Dodd wrote:

> Why doesn't someone invent a hard drive with seperate and dedicated read and
> write heads???


Actually, Quantum made some hard drives with seperate read/write heads.
They were used in the early ReplayTVs.  When Maxtor bought Quantum, they
decided that "new" hard drives where fast enough that it was not worth the
extra expense to make those models anymore.

John