[mythtv-users] Recommendation for SSD boot drive

[Fred Watt]

On 23/01/13 16:16, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> 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.
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Yes I was looking for a fast boot disk option ... currently in the slave 
I have a 1Tb disk for slave recordings.  I boot into ubuntu from a iscsi 
disk < 13Gb.  The computer is used as a slave (with sat/dvb-t2 
tuners)/mythfrontend.

Therefore I was looking for a fast ssd device to replace the 13Gb iscsi 
disk.  The 1Tb recording disk is as used as a cache, rather than network 
storage.  In fact I have a job to sync recordings to the network if I 
want to view them without the slave being powered on.  I therefore  have 
one disk in the computer, but virtually I have another which gives me - 
a boot and a storage disk.

What I am trying to do is minimise the time to boot for my partner.