RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
I was thinking of staying away from WD cause they were noisy in my Tivo. I was reading somewhere that Maxtor had some utility that I could use to lower he RPM's when the drive was not under heavy use. I have no problems with Seagate. And as for the memory, 512 GB is the latest trend. 512 MB is Childs play. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Adeff Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:33 AM To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems? On Friday 23 December 2005 20:05, John Andersen wrote: On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho there was a period where many people reported problems with them. I've never had one fail and I use them in production servers a lot. The first WD I put in this MythBox of mine was bad out of the box, and Its replacement has been solid. bathtub curve, its normal, its why I always stress test all new harddrives I have before relying on them. My friend just bought two ~200gig seagate drives for a raid 1 array in his new computer. One died early, the other going strong. I've had excellent luck with WD's so far, running 5 in various systems. no infant death syndromes luckily, and they've all been running great. Great price t'boot. I have a few older Maxtor's, one IDS'd got it RMA'd and the new one is solid, the other two have been great. Granted, one is a 18GB SCSI U160 Atlas 10K-III(man I love that drive). I've got no Seagate IDE's but I have a 70G SCSI seagate thats ~5yo thats been great, I do all my video editing off of it, and I'm getting it a sister off my friend, might have to raid them... If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. I have similar, one for the OS and db, one for Myth recordings, 4 or 5 or however many I have now for archived/downloaded recordings. Use partitions for each important directory and make your life easy when doing upgrades/etc. -- steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
On 12/23/05, Matt - MythTV Users Group List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be worried about anything here? Memory – 512 GB Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... -- --JSA- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
Dang... beat me to the punch! John Andersen wrote: On 12/23/05, Matt - MythTV Users Group List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be worried about anything here? Memory – 512 GB Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... -- --JSA- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
Maxtor disks make a lot of noise and are not always very reliable. I should go for a samsung or seagate baracuda if I were you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Harris Sent: vrijdag 23 december 2005 23:56 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems? Dang... beat me to the punch! John Andersen wrote: On 12/23/05, Matt - MythTV Users Group List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I be worried about anything here? Memory - 512 GB Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... -- --JSA- --- - ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
Well, for starters you should be worried about your wallet and how you are going to fit 512 GB of memory on that mobo... /smirk ... That was really funny. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
On 12/23/05, Rick van der Mieden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxtor disks make a lot of noise and are not always very reliable. I should go for a samsung or seagate baracuda if I were you. Not to start an argument, but I've had some very bad luck with Samsung OEM drives lately, including a new one that failed after 19 days. (Another was an OEM drive in an MS machine that failed after about 16 months, and a notebook drive that failed after about 9 months). I've had no problem with either of my Maxtors. (*knock, knock, knock*, they're holding my entire library of film and music). All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho there was a period where many people reported problems with them. I've never had one fail and I use them in production servers a lot. The first WD I put in this MythBox of mine was bad out of the box, and Its replacement has been solid. If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. -- --JSA- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
On Friday 23 December 2005 05:05 pm, John Andersen wrote: If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. Or you could just put the OS and Myth/DB on separate partitions if you want to make formatting easier without needing another drive. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 23, 2005, at 19.13, Louie Ilievski wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 05:05 pm, John Andersen wrote: If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. Or you could just put the OS and Myth/DB on separate partitions if you want to make formatting easier without needing another drive. Yeah, but that's moot if the hard drive dies, which is what I think the original quote was talking about. I'm actually planning a configuration where all the recordings go to one drive, and everything else on another drive, just to make upgrading video storage easier (When I decide that 20 GB isn't enough, I replace it with 100 GB. When I decide 100 GB isn't enough, I replace it with 300 GB, and so on) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDrKkMwAwn3hu8KxcRAq0iAJ4rZIIllqRpX+j5jP1SVFZYJXzUlwCcDDjG JWq8MkFesC/axBSWEqOwgAY= =O/e9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie's Hardware any problems?
On Friday 23 December 2005 20:05, John Andersen wrote: On 12/23/05, Dewey Smolka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things considered I'd probably go first for WD or Seagate, second for Maxtor. I can't recommend Samsung. Well, nowdays (or very soon) Maxtor will BE Seagate... I've also had really good luck with the Ex-IBM Hitachi drives even tho there was a period where many people reported problems with them. I've never had one fail and I use them in production servers a lot. The first WD I put in this MythBox of mine was bad out of the box, and Its replacement has been solid. bathtub curve, its normal, its why I always stress test all new harddrives I have before relying on them. My friend just bought two ~200gig seagate drives for a raid 1 array in his new computer. One died early, the other going strong. I've had excellent luck with WD's so far, running 5 in various systems. no infant death syndromes luckily, and they've all been running great. Great price t'boot. I have a few older Maxtor's, one IDS'd got it RMA'd and the new one is solid, the other two have been great. Granted, one is a 18GB SCSI U160 Atlas 10K-III(man I love that drive). I've got no Seagate IDE's but I have a 70G SCSI seagate thats ~5yo thats been great, I do all my video editing off of it, and I'm getting it a sister off my friend, might have to raid them... If At all possible I like to have two drives, one for the OS, and one for Myth and the database. That way you can reformat with less hassle. I have similar, one for the OS and db, one for Myth recordings, 4 or 5 or however many I have now for archived/downloaded recordings. Use partitions for each important directory and make your life easy when doing upgrades/etc. -- steve ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
