[mythtv-users] Building new MythTV system, hardware help

[Cymen Vig]

On 2/23/06, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not the CPU, but the IO bus of the machine. Say, for example you have
> a motherboard with Primary IDE, Secondary IDE, and 2 SATA channels,
> and let's say a 2 port SATA add on card. You have a (6) drive Raid5
> setup,
>
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> Trust me, this exact setup is what I tried for 2+ years. I changed
> motherboards, processors, ram, cards, drives, kernels, distros, and
> could never get it 100% stable. Too many little glitchy things. All of
> which went away when I got a HW raid card.

Out of curiousity, were you using LVM too or just software RAID?
Lately, I've noticed a number of people pointing out that LVM has more
overhead than one might guess.