[mythtv-users] Need advice for storage project

[Maarten van den Berg]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 15:11, Nathan Richardson wrote:
> Thanks. I was considering something similar and I also have a couple
> of old 10GB drives that would be perfect for this. I don't have any
> old processors or motherboards, though, while I do have a firewire-IDE
> bridgeboard and an old SCSI 4-bay enclosure (great deal at $30).
>
> If it doesn't work out (samba issues, Firewire 400 too slow, etc.), I
> think I should be able to put a mini-itx or other small motherboard in
> the enclosure and make an NAS box...
>
> Anbody got any other interesting mass storage setups?

I have an 8-disk server in the "basement" here.  For ease of setup and 
eventual fixing, the OS and the storage are kept strictly separate. So it 
sports one 6.4 GB drive with the entire OS, and seven 80GB disks forming a 
raid5 volume with a hot spare, which leaves 400 GB useable space.

I'm currently contemplating its upgrade / decommissioning. I've ordered six 
160 GB units (SATA) but I've not decided yet where to place them... inside 
the myth box will give space, heat and noise issues. Inside the current 
server could work except for the fact I cannot kill the old array before the 
new one is built (and thoroughly tested!).  And even I do not dare to put 14 
disks in one chassis, especially when half of those drives are filled with 
data. But buying new hardware just for this seems wasteful, to say the least.

Maarten


> -Nathan
>
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:37:32 +0200, Gert van der Knokke <gertk at xs4all.nl> 
wrote:
> > Nathan Richardson wrote: