[mythtv-users] SATA pci card or USB enclosure

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 01 May 2009 18:33:45 Harry Orenstein wrote:
> On Friday 01 May 2009 01:54:54 pm Michelle Agnew wrote:
> > I need to add another hard drive to my backend/frontend and I only have 2
> > SATA ports on the mobo.  Which would be a better option for adding the
> > drive, adding in a SATA pci card or putting the drive in a USB enclosure?
> > They are about the same price.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Michelle
>
> I have a Maxtor SATA PCI card.  Made by Promise and works perfectly with
> Linux.  I got mine for $15 on eBay.  Provides 2 SATA and 1 Ultra ATA
> connections.  Works really well for me running with a Seagate 500MB drive.
> Only downside is that it's SATA150 and not SATA300.  If you need SATA300
> the PCI card will be more expensive (probably about $50 for the SATA300
> version). Just make sure it works with Linux (Promise is the best in my
> opinion for a low end card).

Are there actually any drives available that are faster than SATA-1. The last 
I heard the fastest SATA drive on the market was still a 150 interface.

I'm also looking for a 4-port SATA card, but I want a 133Mhz. PCI-X card 
(64-bit), or the PCI bus will be the limiting factor.

Most of the ones I have found are also RAID controllers, and thus expensive. I 
I just need the ports, I can do RAID with mdadm, in fact I'd rather do it 
that way.

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