[mythtv-users] Disk space for frontend-only machine

[Simon Hobson]

Nick Rout wrote:

>I agree. There are netboot methods covered in this thread, but if you
>don't want that, it's actually quite hard to find a 20 or 40G hard
>drive to use as a system disk these days. SSDs come in smaller sizes
>and are a good use case for a frontend (silent, fast to boot), but can
>also be more expensive.

Or use a small flash drive or CF card. If you avoid mounting the 
"active" stuff like /var and /tmp on the drive, use noatime as a 
mount option, etc then it has very little to do and the limited write 
cycle count shouldn't be an issue.
Faster and quieter than a hard disk.
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