<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im"> On 10/7/2010 14:01, Josu Lazkano wrote:<br>
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I need a PCIe slot on the board to add the DVB-S2 tunner, an if it has<br>
a mini PCIe slot for a little SSD drive, it will be perfect.<br>
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What use would a SSD be to MythTV? On a backend, surely you don't intend to record to it, and we don't generate enough database traffic for an SSD to make sense. If you're looking for boot times, just put it in standby instead. On a frontend, the only disk usage is going to be on startup, and if you're looking to just get rid of a noisy hard drive, use network boot.<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just brainstorming, but power saving? On my BE, the six drives consume 5.5w each at idle, for 33W. Divide by 80%, and we're at 40w or so of load, call it 30 kwh/month. If you let the BE drives spin down when not in use, and record to SSD, you're likely saving quite a bit of power. You can schedule migration of recordings to the spinning disks regularly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Based on my electricity pricing, I'd save about $5/month for this. That is $60/yr, and may well pay for a PCI-e SSD; a reasonable one is on newegg now for <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227596&cm_re=PCI_SSD-_-20-227-596-_-Product">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227596&cm_re=PCI_SSD-_-20-227-596-_-Product</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>50 gigs probably fits my OS, database, and enough slop to save recordings for a day or so.</div><div><br></div><div>- Gavin</div></div>