[mythtv-users] RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

Dan Littlejohn littlejohn86 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 22:38:56 UTC 2004


If you were at all considering SATA, this was a pretty good overview
of RAID5 cards.  It includes features that I had not considered like
online capacity expansion.

     http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20040625/index.html

Dan Littlejohn


On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 17:14:06 -0500 (EST), Randy Carpenter
<mythtv at rune.net> wrote:
> 
> 3Ware. Pretty much the best supported hardware IDE or SATA raid card.
> The new 9000 series cards are supposedly very fast (SATA only, though)
> 
> -Randy
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Andrew Plumb wrote:
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > For those who do use hardware RAID5 cards for ATA IDE drives, which
> > cards have you (not) had success with, for use in a mythtvbackend
> > machine?  Or in any Linux-based machine for that matter?
> >
> > I'm pondering picking up something like a Promise FastTrak SX4000.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> > --
> >
> > If you don't know what to do, do something.
> >
> 
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