Hard Drives & DVRs: Filesystems

This is the second post in the series on hard drive selection for DVRs. The first post talked a bit about the type of workload that a DVR imposes on the drives and went through some basic ways of measuring raw drive performance.

In this post we’ll take a look at the impact that the filesystem has on I/O performance, again with an emphasis on a DVR recording and playback workload. The filesystem is one of a few system components that we have some control over and that has a great impact on how the drive behaves.  The I/O scheduler is another component that we’ll take a look at in a subsequent post. Continue reading “Hard Drives & DVRs: Filesystems”