[mythtv-users] SSDs and Myth frontends ?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Sep 17 00:22:15 UTC 2010


Someone just gave me a 64GB SSD (probably buttering me up for some other favor in the future, like building him a Myth 
system).

I was thinking about replacing the 2.5" HDD that came with my Revo with it.

I don't really see any advantage, other than power consumption, heat and reliability.

But I have read a few things about the net about SSDs causing long pauses, but of course these were Windows users, and I 
know Windows is not optimized for SSDs, and there are some parameters you can tweak in Linux to handle them better (like 
which scheduler, mounting with noatime, not swapping to it etc.).

Anybody see any reasons to not go with an SSD for a frontend? As I said, I'm not looking for any great improvement over a 
conventional SSD, but my other option is to netboot the frontend, which would be even quieter, draw even less power and 
make even less heat than an SSD.

Hmmm, seems like I am talking myself into netbooting :-)

Although 64Gb is large enough to hold an OS and a Myth B/E, I don't see any reason to try the SSD in my BE, it's already 
spinning many drives anyway, and is located in the garage so noise is not a factor.

If it matters, it's a (relatively) cheap Kingston unit, I've seen them around for $120. I know Linus says to not buy 
anything but an Intel SSD, but he probably has more money than I do, and may get hardware for free.




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