Re: Which make of IDE HDD drive to go for?

In article <8ajnl3ttu2p3ea8gfrc77bve96qv36v9hg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Are they on all the time? 80Gb Maxtors do run hot, but change of
temperature is more damaging than continuous even temp.

The drives in PVRs are usually 5400rpm, so they run cooler than their
7200rpm brethren, and they're "AV" drives - they are allowed to deliver
erroneous data to the host in order to maintain a constant stream of
data. If a bad sector is encountered, the drive firmware doesn't go to
the same lengths to retry the read that a non-AV drive would.

Clearly, this would be unacceptable in a PC, but on PVR it results only
in one or more pixels being the wrong colour - unlikely to be noticed on
a moving picture.

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