[mythtv-users] Drive specs best for Myth

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/22/2007 09:00 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> What are the drive characteristics best for MythTV?  I'm trying to 
> eliminate any IOBOUND messages and I'm thinking that my three drive 
> setup isn't ideal.  I'm trying to decide if I need to focus on spindles 
> (more smaller drives), seek times, RPM, or a combination.  I seem to run 
> into trouble only when recording 2 HD, one HD commflag, and one or more 
> SD recordings happening at the same time.  Right now one of the drives 
> is being shared with the root partition of my system but I'm working to 
> move /var (for the database and logging) to a separate drive to 
> eliminate that as a source of IO contention. 
>
> If anyone has done some investigation into larger disk configurations 
> and the specs that work best, I'd appreciate some guidance.  I'm 
> currently limited to EIDE drives (no SATA controllers)

In my experience, the IDE controller has far more of an impact than the 
drive itself (especially with today's modern drives--i.e. those large 
enough (>100GB and typically > 160GB) to be worth using in a Myth box).

That being said, I can't really recommend a good one for you, but I'm 
sure there are many on this list who can.  :)

Mike