On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Udo Richter <udo_richter@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 08.05.2009 01:17, Andrew Herron wrote: >> I agree it must put extra wear & stress on the hard drive and yes the >> energy usage must be higher. > > I don't think so. Disks don't wear that much by reading and writing. > Spinning up and down, heating up and cooling down, shaking them, do lots > of seek operations, thats wearing a hard disk much more. (Flash disks > are different.) Heat (ironically in some cases helps performance) especially wears parts faster. Putting a fan on a harddrive only keeps the housing cool, which is a good thing, but it doesn't do anything for where the heat is actually being generated. You can run a harddrive 24/7/365 but when you do that there's a higher risk the next time you spin it up you'll hear clicking. > OTOH, 4GB of RAM isn't very expensive any more, and should be enough for > roughly 1h of HDTV with good quality (~9mbit), or? If there's any intention to add live tv caching then ram should definitely be available to the user as a storage option. Although I don't really care about the feature, I don't mind if my ram is being used whereas I absolutely don't want a harddrive constantly running for it. Btw, I haven't paid more then $20 for 2x2GB sticks of ram in ages, though I always take advantage of MIR's on them. I actually have 8GB sitting new in the packaging but didn't want to pass up some great deals. :) Regards, Derek _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
