[mythtv-users] Wake up disks on events

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Thu Sep 11 15:35:29 UTC 2008


On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:22 AM, John Drescher wrote:

>>> You could also install a flash card reader and put the database  
>>> files
>>> on a flash drive. Granted, it might tend to slow things down, given
>>> how slow these things are at writes, but it would definitely consume
>>> less power.
>>
>> That's a terrible idea. Flash drives can't keep up with the read/ 
>> write
>> demands of a database application in terms of speed or longevity.
>> Don't do that.
>>
> I think it would be perfectly fine if you get an 8GB or 16GB flash
> drive for the os that has wear leveling ( how many flash drives do not
> have that) and tune your kernel so it writes less frequently. In this
> case the flash drive will last longer than the average hard drive.

Yeah. I take that back. Please install a flash drive for your database  
and let me know how that works out for you.



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