<pre>Well...<br><br>I'm not terribly concerned with data integrity... I intend to mirror my system partitions... any shows that I would want to save from the striped video LV <br>would be written to DVD already... I merely want speed. I'm using some older system hardware and was concerned that things would not be sufficient.
<br><br>As far as the PVR-350's are concerned... I think I will cancel the order and shoot for a PVR-350 and PVR-150... and save a few bucks... I wasn't aware <br>that the PVR-150's had an MPEG2 encoder onboard like the 350's...
<br><br>Thanks...<br><br>Andy<br><br>>Yikes! Having been burned by too many dead hard drives in my life, I<br>>would never consider this option... you are essentially double your<br>>chances of complete data loss. Why do you feel you need the extra I/O
<br>>for Myth? I have a PVR350 and a PVR500 that can handle simultaneous<br>>recording on all three tuners while playing back a fourth previously<br>>recorded show, and there's no noticeable slowdown.<br><br>>I am running this config on LVM with a SATA-based RAID5 array
<br>>underneath attached to an Adaptec RAID controller. I can have a disk<br>>die and lose nothing. RAID5 is better I/O than one disk on its own,<br>>but not as good as striped. It costs more to do, but the paranoid
<br>>person inside me is happy.<br><br>>Also, why two PVR350s? Do you already own them, or are you planning to<br>>buy? You'd only need one 350, if you are planning to playback from the<br>>onboard hardware, and could spend your second 350 budget on PVR150
<br>>(and save money) or a PVR500 (and get three tuner recording).<br><br>>Robin</pre>