[mythtv-users] ATSC tuner recommendation?

[Travis Tabbal]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

>
> I'd just network boot, but I like to run the DB on the same drive as the
> OS,
> which I suspect is what most folks do. I'd rather not slow down the DB.
>
> Never thought I'd see 40GB as the smallest drive I can buy.
>


I hear you. I tried network booting. While I can get it to work fine, I
couldn't get the NVidia drivers to reliably work. They would work when I
installed them, but after a reboot I was back to the fail-safe X. I finally
got sick of messing with it and switched to the USB flash stick. It's not as
fast as a modern HD, but it keeps up well compared to the 5400RPM drive I
just installed. And they cost less than $20. I've only been running it for
about 6 months, but I haven't seen any issues from wear. It only needs to be
updated once in a while and I have it mounted with noatime. The logs
probably hit the flash harder than anything else on the system, and I could
use a remote syslogd I guess.
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