[mythtv-users] Recommendation for SSD boot drive

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/23/2013 09:26, John Drescher wrote:
>>> I recommend for good wear leveling to get a 64GB or 128GB.
>>
>>
>> That seems a bit excessive. A MythTV install is only going to take a few GB,
>> even on modern bloated distros. The only writing it's going to be doing is
>> log data and the theme cache, and the occasional system update. I doubt you
>> would see 128GB of writes over the life of the system, certainly not the
>> thousand times that to necessitate a drive that large for the purposes of
>> wear leveling.
>>
>
> I agree. For some reason I thought the OP was talking about a backend.

They were, but a slave backend. Presumably one that would be recording 
to some remote storage on the network, as opposed to the local boot SSD.