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5400RPM drives and PVR

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dmw16

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Im building an entertainment PC and Im looking at hard drives right now. I was wondering if, with a 900-1000mhz CPU, a 5400RPM drive could handle PVR duties. I dont mind paying for a 7200rpm, but having a 5400 would keep the noise down a lot. So Im just curious if anyone has any experience with this and can offer some advice?
thanks,
-doug
 
Since you're talking PVR, you would be using MPEG-2 or some variety like ATI's VCR, which while CPU intensive, is not particularly strenuous as far as Data rate. That said, the Maxtor fluid drive 7200 drives are silent, so if noise is a concern, you could go that direction. I would always recommend the most powerful components possible for a Multimedia PC, the frustration would be considerable with a "quiet" rig that doesn't quite cut it performance wise.
 
Yeah, 5400 would be ok for you. Alternatively, get a Barracuda IV from Seagate - quiet as it comes. But why spend the money on that?
Anything you can read from a CD / DVD drive, you can read just as well from a 5400 drive!!!!!

For the processor, I would suggest one of the new Pentiums or Celerons with 1.13 + GHz (NOT an old Coppermine)
.13 µm, very little power, lots of happiness.

Also, if you have the money, look at the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR, which has hardware MPEG-2 encoding, in which case you could put a VIA CPU into your system, and could still encode MPEG-2

*droool*

I need to stop posting.
 
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