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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">On 28 Dec 2009 at 11:50, Derek & Cindi Cass wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     I am rebuilding my mythbox to take advantage of 4 new 640GB drives that I now have. I am </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     planning on putting them together in a RAID5 array for recordings and to use as a file server for </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     all the computers on my home network.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     I am planning on putting the OS on a separate hard drive, and therein lie my questions. I have a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     few hard drives to choose from, a 80GB ide, 120GB ide, a 160 GB SATA, and a 500GB SATA. I </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     would prefer to use the SATA drives in other computers in the house, but I am concerned about </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     system performance using the slower ide drives as the OS drive. The optical drive in this system </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     is also an ide drive, although it doesn’t get much use. I am aware of performance issues with a </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     hard drive and an optical drive sharing the same channel, but I only rip the (very) occasional </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     DVD; I never use it as a CD or DVD player since the mythbox is hidden away in a closet. The </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     motherboard in this system (Gigabyte M57SLI-S4) only has 1 ide channel, so the OS drive and </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     optical drive would have to share it.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     Should I use the ide drive as my main drive?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     Are there any issues with using ide and sata in the same system?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     I have recently seen threads regarding performance issues with ext4. What filesystems should I </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     use for the RAID5 and OS drives?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     I have the option of using a SATA optical drive in this system. Would it be more beneficial to </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     use both ide drives: one for OS, one for MYSQL?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     Other relevant system specs: Athlon X2 4800+, NVidia 9500GT, 2 GB ram, HD PVR, Hauppage </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     HVR-1600. I will be running .22-fixes and Fedora 12.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     Any feedback would be appreciated!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000"><span style=" font-size:12pt">>     -Derek</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">My backend runs 6  750GB SATA drives for storage, configued as 3  1.5TB
raid 0 arrays, since I'm most concerned with maximizing storage space. I
have run XFS on my storage drives for many years, with nary a hicup.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">My system disk is a 40 GB IDE drive that shares the cable with a BluRay/HD-DVD drive. This system disk is about twice as big as it needs to be. It runs
EXT3.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Both the OS and MySQL are on the system disk. The storage arrays have all
the recordings, music, RIPs.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">It's dedicated to being a MythTV backend/frontend only, as I have another
server on my home network for everything else. My system has been rock-solid for years. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">In my case, on my hardware, this configuration has been very well-behaved.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">YMMV</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style=" font-size:12pt">Marvin</span></font></div>
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