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</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">yea, if the changes are indeed due to VDPAU none of that would make<br>
difference, except maybe for the start/end of recordings hiccups.<br>
doesn't sound like the dev's have nailed down what's causing it yet<br>
though.<br>
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thanks for the update!<br>
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is there a reason you're not using storage groups for your recording<br>
drives? (I ask because I ran RAID5 across 6 disks and when I went to<br>
storage groups instead I noticed a substantial decrease in my i/o wait<br>
times and a perceived increase in speed).<br>
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Steve<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div>You can call me paranoid if you want. My MythTV box is not just for recordings. I have many family photos, most of my music, and my entire collection of DVDs in that RAID6 volume. I also have it backed up, but not physically in a different location. A fire would wipe me out right now. I'm mostly looking for short MTTR times as well as long MTBF. My disk drives are in a hot swap enclosure located in 3 of my 5.25" drive bays. If I have a disk failure I just pop out the failed one, install a new one and rebuild the array. I also have a spare PS as that is the second thing most likely to fail. I set this up many years ago and I haven't thought about changing it. Maybe I should. All of my hardware is located in my basement directly below my 52" plasma screen. The only things that can be seen in the viewing room besides the TV are the 5.1 speaker system, an IR to RF receiver/transmitter and a few wires for video and audio. I love showing it off and it garners big wow factor to my guests. I do love the MythTV software.<br>
<br>-- Ken E.<br>