[mythtv-users] Newbie

[Gavin Whitehead]

On 03/12/2011 08:39, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Eric Sharkey wrote:
>
>>   >  As to mirroring two drives. I suspect the throughput would be fairly
>>>   close to the throughput available on the slowest drive.
>> That's true for writing, since you need to write to both drives.  Read
>> performance is another matter, since you don't need to read from both.
>>   The read performance from a raid 1 set should be better than either
>> drive individually.
> Correct.
>
>> That said, any modern disk drive is going to easily cope with multiple
>> HD streams both in and out, so this is not generally a bottle neck on
>> system performance for typical mythTV usage.
> No, it's been flogged to death before. Whether SD or HD, the limit
> you tend to hit first is the ability of the disk to seek back and
> forth quickly enough. Streaming rate to or from the disk is almost
> irrelevant unless you only have one stream going.
> Yes modern drives are good, but it's still fairly easy to exceed their limits.
>
So are there whole threads dedicated to which are the best disks to use 
[sound of can-of-worms opening] ?

Gavin