[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[David Brodbeck]

On Wed, September 24, 2008 11:12 am, Blammo wrote:
> I've had really good luck with 3ware 9500S series.. you can typically
> ebay the 4-port version under $100 and the 8-port under $200. Hardware
> raid5, hot-swap ability, install the 3dm2 tool, and you get emails on
> array events, GUI for utils, etc. It's a PCI-X card, but it will work
> find in PCI slots. You'll cap yourself at about 100MB sec throughput
> using PCI instead of PCI-X, but that's more than enough for myth. :)

I use these at work.  I highly recommend them if you're after a hardware
RAID solution.  If you don't want to use the web GUI, there's also a good
command line management tool called tw_cli.  I still recommend installing
3dm2 so you can get email on disk failures, though.