[mythtv-users] Suitable Hardware

[Scott]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:46 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> > If you want RAID I suspect that board would work, but buying it just to
> > get additional PATA ports is bad economics. It also ties up a PCI slot,
> > those are getting scarcer with the PCI-Express mobos.
> >
> > Personally if I wanted RAID I'd go with Linux software RAID, not a H/W
> > controller, but many disagree with me on that.
> >
> I assume it is a fake raid controller. I don't know what this one
> costs but a few IDE fake raid controllers can be had for less than $20
> US.

I'll second for software RAID over fakeraid. If you're going to do RAID,
and cannot afford a true HW RAID controller, then just get a PCI board
that handles 2 or 4 IDE drives and forget about the RAID part. You can
do better with Linux software RAID I think.

-- 
Scott <list-mythtv at bluecamel.eml.cc>