[mythtv-users] PCI-E Analog Card

[Ben Kamen]

On 1/22/2010 5:52 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> An older SCSI-based server might work for you, they can be had relatively
> cheaply these days (at least compared to their original cost). SCSI drives are
> also available cheaply, but large capacity SCSI drives are expensive. You
> might look into SAS as well.
>
> Don't try to cheap out, a system like you want will have to perform very well,
> and you generally have to pay for that. Disk I/O will be more important than
> CPU power, and that's usually found in server machines.


Amen -- and when RAID is mentioned in the same discussion as performance, consider HARDWARE based RAID vs RAID done in the operating system's software.


  -Ben