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<p class=MsoNormal>I am rebuilding my mythbox to take advantage of 4 new 640GB
drives that I now have. I am planning on putting them together in a RAID5
array for recordings and to use as a file server for all the computers on my
home network.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am planning on putting the OS on a separate hard drive,
and therein lie my questions. I have a few hard drives to choose from, a 80GB
ide, 120GB ide, a 160 GB SATA, and a 500GB SATA. I would prefer to use
the SATA drives in other computers in the house, but I am concerned about
system performance using the slower ide drives as the OS drive. The
optical drive in this system is also an ide drive, although it doesn’t
get much use. I am aware of performance issues with a hard drive and an
optical drive sharing the same channel, but I only rip the (very) occasional
DVD; I never use it as a CD or DVD player since the mythbox is hidden away in a
closet. The motherboard in this system (Gigabyte M57SLI-S4) only has 1
ide channel, so the OS drive and optical drive would have to share it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Should I use the ide drive as my main drive?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Are there any issues with using ide and sata in the same
system?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have recently seen threads regarding performance issues
with ext4. What filesystems should I use for the RAID5 and OS drives?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have the option of using a SATA optical drive in this
system. Would it be more beneficial to use both ide drives: one for OS,
one for MYSQL?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Other relevant system specs: Athlon X2 4800+, NVidia 9500GT,
2 GB ram, HD PVR, Hauppage HVR-1600. I will be running .22-fixes and Fedora
12.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any feedback would be appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-Derek<o:p></o:p></p>
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