[mythtv-users] USB Harddrives

[aaron]

On 7/21/08, Peter VanDerWal <peter at vanderwal.us> wrote:
>
> I do hope you are backing up that data.

I'm not... nowhere to keep it =)

And, it's just TV ;-)   although I would be upset if I lost everything.

Also, my system shuts down when not in use.

>
> USB drives are really not intended to be used this way, and keeping a
> drive running continuously tends to lead to short lifespans.

I'd much rather use a "real" drive, but no space in the case, and I
don't tend to see IDE (ie/ PATA) drives in the 1 TB sizes :)

>
> I'd think if you want to use external drives that you'd be better off
> using SATA.  Any particular reason you folks aren't doing this?  I mean
> besides the fact that USB is a little bit cheaper (I'm pretty sure there
> is some correlation between "cheap" and "longevity")

In my case, my system doesn't have SATA. I considered replacing the
200 GB drive I've got in there now with a larger one, but it was a
pain to get the drive in in the first place and I don't tend to have
enough contiguous free time to reinstall the system (the 200 GB drive
is shared between OS, database and recordings. Yes, the recordings are
on separate partitions, and no I haven't ever run into performance
problems).


-- 
aaron

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