[mythtv-users] Always record like TiVO (was Re: OT: Interestingstudy on HDD failure by Googlelabs)

[Marco Nelissen]

>On 02/19/2007 12:20 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>> One of the points they make:
>>    Contrary to previously reported results, we found
>>    very little correlation between failure rates and ei­
>>    ther elevated temperature or activity levels.
>>
>> I remember a while ago disk failure due to wear was brought forward as a
>> reason against tivo-like "always record with all tuners" functionality
>> in mythtv.
>
>Right.  As you said, /a/ reason.  Not /the/ reason.  ;)
>
>>  Time to reconsider that... :)
>
>As is people are/have been whining about the fact that LiveTV is only 
>expired once per day so they can't "see how much disk space is 
>available".  If tuners were always recording, there would always be 0 
>space available (although, perhaps on only one of potentially many 
>partitions with the new Storage Groups).

When I said "tivo-like", I really meant "like tivo"... ;)
That means a 30 minute (or some other configurable amount) on-disk
ringbuffer per tuner. Hardly something that'll fill up your hard
drive.