[vdr] Re: Some hardware-questions

[Stefaan Coddé <stefaan.codde@pandora.be>]

Rene Hertell wrote:
On Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:12 PM




> > > 1Gig Ram
> > For what? 128MB is enough for VDR, even if you have no swap-space on
> > HD. But with 1GB of RAM you might consider to mount it to /video as
> > tmpfs. ;-)
> > RAM needs lots of power and more power means that there is more heat
> > to deal with.
>
> I was first thinking about mounting swap into ram, but if you say that VDR
> manages with 128Mb, then this would be useless.. If I manage to boot from
a
> CF-card, then I could just mount the whole system into RAM...
>
Again, i'm nou sure that the epia can boot from the compact flash card at
all.
Do check that on the epia related forums on via's website.

>
> >
> > > Large and silent 5400 rpm HDD
> > I recommend the Samsung-drives. I own a SV1604 and it's really silent
> > (with rubber-bearing from Noiseblocker) and stays quite cool.
>
> Is by the way the 5400 rpm drive fast enough for recording and wathing
> simultaneously?

Yes. vieuwing is a task of the CPU or mpeg hardware decoder and display
processor.
Recording more a mater for the harddrive :-)

> > I was planning the same but when I heard how silent the HD is, I
> > decided to let it be. The drive is really silent, so there's no need
> > for spinning down.
>
> The main reason why I was thinking about booting the system from a
CF-memory
> was that it would be more fail proof. The file system would not get messed
> up when switching off the machine with the power-button..
>
Choose a jouranling file type as ReiserFS or EXT3 , it is crash proof.
Well, there are limits but a sudden power failure is no problem for a
jopuranling type file system.



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