Do you have any reason to believe that MySQL is causing the performance problems? I haven't noticed it taking significant resources on my combined FE/MBE. I'd hate to see you dedicate 200GB to what amounts to about 20MB for no good reason. Even with SBEs doing commflagging and such it doesn't seem very busy. <br>
<br>If you want to test it, find an old HD lying around and install that. IMO, it's significantly easier than what you're trying to do. And if it does work, you know it's worth the work. You could even install the new disk on USB or something as a temp fix since the only reason I could see the database causing an issue is with caching or latency from seeking. My FE/MBE has a single 500GB HD. I have noticed no performance problems with disk access. I'm using 2 partitions, ext3 for / and XFS for myth recordings and other media. Performance has been fine with 2 recordings going, 2 commflags to a remote SBE, and HD playback (MPEG2 or h264). With 3 spindles, I can't imagine your storage system can't keep up unless it's underpowered somehow. <br>
<br>What kind of performance issues are you having, exactly? CPU use? RAM use? <br>