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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have a Si3124 4-port card w/ a 320, 250,
and 2x160 in a RAID 1. I greatly recommend anyone that’s planning on
getting a card to get this one as it supports multiplexing. You can multiplex 5
drives/channel giving you a total of 20 drives on a $50 card. I think you can
even span across multiple cards in the same system. I plan you use an old cd
tower and some icy docks (I think someone mentioned that earlier) and pop a few
of those 1TB <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hitachi</st1:place></st1:City>
drives in there. Also you can get away with a small case and use one SATA port
and use a multiplexer and have a 5 drive external case instead of huge tower
case.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Card: <a
href="http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=27">http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=27</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Multiplexer: <a
href="http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=26">http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=26</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>MacNean Tyrrell<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 08, 2007
10:37 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] Where
are those new 1TB drives?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>So is going to RAID easy? and can you go with some IDE and some
SATA? I always need more space (currently 1 350gig ide, and 2x250gig ide
in my be/fe) and i've been thinking about getting HDHR, so need more space, and
eventually would love to put every DVD i own in myth, so have been debating a
RAID, but i am tottally clueless when it comes to that. and is RAID5 the
concensus best choice? And i see discussion on software/hardware.
Do you still need a controlling RAID5 card, or if you just get a SATA card/mobo
to attach drives too, linux has software to handle it all? And for
apearance sake i don't want a huge tower in the living room, so would i have to
separate the BE to my basement into a huge tower? I apologize for my
ignorance in this area. I just want as much info as i can get before i do
it. <br>
--<br>
Sincerely, <br>
<br>
MacNean C. Tyrrell <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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