[mythtv-users] ATA RAID Question

[David]

and aren't 5400 drives a *lot* cooler?

I 've made the mistake of buying a 7200 SATA disk and they run hot!
Which means I need fans which means noise...

Luckily this all got kicked off because the wife said she wanted a PVR 
and offered to donate her PC as a test bed ;)
What we're doing now is bodging it together in her PC (which we'll 
restore at some point) and then once it's all going we'll buy a 
mobo/case etc for a dedicated machine.

I'm now thinking lower end CPU (but not *too* low) with passive cooling, 
variable speed psu, 5400rpm disks (probably multiples), old VGA card (I 
may try the VGA/RGB hack at some point) and a sound card with SPDIF.

David

malcolm wrote:

>You really don't need such powerful drives for mythtv.  I have a PVR-350
>(using tv out) and a PVR-250.  I can capture two shows at once and view a
>pre-recorded show (or watch one of the shows currently been recorded) at the
>same time and my ata33 5400rpm drive (not 133 but just 33) humms right along
>with not to much stress.
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>If you think about it the PVR-350 or 250 with Myth's default settings writes
>2.2Gigs an hour.  So recording 2 shows at once: Do you think your ata33
>drive can handle writing 4.4Gigs in an hour?  Sure of course it can.
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>If you really want raid though we always use 3ware escalade cards at work.
>Excellent cards and as of recent their open source drivers are included in
>the kernel which makes them real nice to use.
>
>Later
>Malcolm
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Karl Rautenstrauch" <krautenstrauch at hotmail.com>
>To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:07 PM
>Subject: [mythtv-users] ATA RAID Question
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>>I am looking for a recommendation for an ATA RAID controller.  Anyone have
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>>pleasant experience with one they would like to share?  Also, any opinions
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>>PVR-250?  In read/write intensive apps like Oracle OLTP databases, we see
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>>huge improvement with RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 and Myth seems fairly IO intense
>>while recording or buffering Live TV.  Thanks in advance.
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>>Karl Rautenstrauch
>>Systems Administrator
>>Energy Marketing and Trading
>>Florida Power and Light
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