[mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40

[Jonathan Markevich]

This comment was much more polite however.

I don't have a lot of room in my case, and I also don't want to increase 
the temperature in there very much, if possible.  In fact, the only 
other HD brackets I have are for 2.5" drives.  If I want to add another 
drive, it goes in to the floppy slot, and won't be fastened down.  It's 
a very nice case, but it's a smaller form factor though.

It's not that hard just to prevent yourself from pulling out the cable 
while the machine is running, ya know,  much like you wouldn't do that 
for the power cord...

Jeff Simpson wrote:

>My comment was in response to LVM over external USB devices, just to clarify.
>
>I don't mean in terms of performance, more in terms of just the fact
>that it's an external drive. It seems like a bad idea to base a system
>around a removable drive that you can't remove without ruining the
>rest of the filesystem. It would be kind of like taking a floppy drive
>and gluing the disk into the drive and using it as permenant instead
>of removable storage.
>
>If there's no other way to add a device, I guess it's possible, but I
>would think it would make more sense financially to add a $20 raid
>card or similar and add a few more internal devices. The cost of an
>external drive over the cost of an internal drive is really just the
>USB/firewire interface, case, and power supply, so it seems like a
>waste to me...
>
> - Jeff
>
>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:53:40 -0500, sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com
><sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com> wrote:
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>>no, but I was thinking about trying it with 4 drives
>>I did try using two WD 120 gig drives (8 MB buffer, connected via IDE) buffers in a stripe set.
>>It actually did worse performance wise than a single WD 160 gig (also 8 MB buffer).
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com>
>>Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:02 pm
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40
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>>>that sounds like a famously bad idea to me...
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>>>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:26 -0400, Jonathan Markevich
>>><mythtv at jonandtina.net> wrote:
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>>>>Anthony Vito wrote:
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>>>>>>Now I just need to find some places to mount all
>>>>>>these drives....
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>>>>>LVM is beautiful thing as well ;)
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>>>>Which reminds me, has anyone tried to span a LVM volume to
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>>>include an
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>>>>external USB 2.0 drive?
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