[mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

[Graham W. Mitchell]

> move all (or at least most of) my tuner cards into a tower tucked away
> from the TVs, with several large drives

That's what I've got at the moment.. But I think I'm going to have to split the two functions apart - have a server machine, and a backend machine (just to add to the 4 other servers in the basement... My wife will love me... NOT) lol.

> If only SCSI were much, much cheaper

SCSI is cheap.... BIG SCSI isn't, which is the problem.... I've got 4 Compaq SCSI RAID cards sitting in a storage box I picked up pretty cheap. My main Netware server in the house here has 8 SCSI drives I picked up for about $80 each a couple of years ago.. Problem is that they're only 50GB drives.. And that just doesn't cut it for HTPC...

I did look a year or so ago at some ATA->SCSI converters so I could use my SCSI RAID on larger ATA drivers (120GB drives at the time). I wonder if they're any cheaper, and still available, and work with 200Gb drives.


Graham

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:58 AM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

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On Friday 23 April 2004 17:48, Graham W. Mitchell wrote:
> The problem is Jarod, the lack of slots on most motherboards these
> days...

Very true... Especially for an HTPC.

> I'd like to put in a couple of ATA cards for disks, but with 
> 2x250s, a bttv card and sound card, I am plain out of slots.... Looks
> like I need to add another dedicated file server for this....

Heh, actually, that exactly what I'm very seriously considering right now. I'd 
move all (or at least most of) my tuner cards into a tower tucked away from 
the TVs, with several large drives, then run diskless with both my frontends 
(or perhaps just with some smaller, silent-as-possible drives).

> Or maybe 
> SATA is the way to go when the drives are cheap enough.

SATA helps... I think I've seen motherboards with at least 6 independent 
onboard SATA connectors... If only SCSI were much, much cheaper... =)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:12 PM
>
> Multiple driver per ATA bus will absolutely DESTROY performance. ATA is
> absolute crap when it comes to multiple devices per bus. Get a PCI ATA
> card
> for about $30, add it to your setup, and performance should at LEAST
> double.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html

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