[mythtv-users] Using firewire or usb external drives

[Henry Fleischmann]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>Hi,
>   I run one of my backends with only 1394 storage for MythTV. It
>works fine as long as 1394 itself works. There are many 1394 OHCI
>adapters and some hard drives that either don't work or don't work
>well under Linux. Make sure, if possible, to get an OHCI adapter using
>a TI controller and a drive, if possible, that uses an Oxford bridge
>if you can tell what's in it.
>
>   That said my backend runs with a 300GB Maxtor One Touch and it
>works fine. The main issue is to ensure it's online at record and
>playback time. Build 1394 support as modules and load sbp2 support to
>use the drive. After that it's all pretty straight forward.
>
>   I don't think drive performance or file system choices make much
>difference at all for something like MythTV. Real bandwidth
>requirements are really very low. In your recording two shows and
>watching 3 shows at the same time is still less than 5MB/S. Pretty
>much anythign will keep up in my experience. More important, I find,
>is the stability of the network assuming you're using wireless like we
>are. That was the biggest hurdle we faced.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Mark
>
>On 9/10/05, Henry Fleischmann <henry at fishcasa.com> wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>
>>I'm setting up my first Mythtv system on Gentoo and had a question about
>>storage. What kind of problems will I run into if I base all my storage
>>for recorded programs, stored movies, MP3s, etc. on external USB or
>>firewire drives? For now I am putting my frontend and backend on the
>>same system (Asus Pundit-r 3Ghz, 200GB HD) which only has 1 HD bay but I
>>plan to move to separate frontend and backend setup if I find Mythtv and
>>I get along ok. External drives seem like a good solution due to ease of
>>expansion the ability to migrate them fairly easily to other systems.
>>
>>Should I avoid I stick with one directory per drive and avoid JFS/XFS?
>>Is performance to low? Are their know problems with JFS or XFS on these
>>kinds of drives? If I add all the drives to one files system will the
>>spanned file systems be difficult to get back up on a different system
>>that recognize the drives in a different order than the original?
>>
>>I am fairly familiar with JFS on SCSI drives using HP-UX (as of a couple
>>years ago) but have never used it on Linux or with IDE.
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>>Henry
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Thanks for the replies!