[mythtv-users] advise/suggestions on how to set up my drives?

[jedi]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:18:51AM -0500, Johnny Walker wrote:
> In my setup on my backend / desktop workstation - It was sufficient to
> separate the mysql and the OS from the recordings as far as physical drives
> goes.
> 
> Since newer drives are pretty large that leaves a lot unused space on the
> mysql / OS drive - but I'm able to live with that. I may replace that one

   You can always store media on the OS drive. The problem with storing 
recordings on the OS drive is that you've got constant write activity and
also a lot of delete activity going on.

   You're not going to have that with a media drive. Your music or photos
or videos don't change that much. You could probably even mount them as
readonly if you really wanted to.  

   The io "load" from reading that stuff from your frontends won't be
overwhelming either.

> with a solid state drive as I can really tell when the mysql queries are
> running.
> 
> It's been years since I've tuned an mysql server instance.
> 
> -Johnny
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > So I'm building a box for my parents. It will have one QAM PCI tuner
> > and two firewire connected cable boxen (possibly one/two via HDPVR
> > depending on what channels they can record over firewire). We've
> > bought three 1.5tb SATA drives and I'm wondering how I should set them
> > up to host as recordings space and media space (music, dvd rips, etc)
> > to maximize speed for recording and space for both?
> >
> > Thanks for the help folks!
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