[mythtv-users] ATA RAID Question

Ajay ssharma at revsharecorp.com
Tue Mar 16 00:51:29 EST 2004


Karl Rautenstrauch wrote:

> I am looking for a recommendation for an ATA RAID controller.  Anyone 
> have a pleasant experience with one they would like to share?  Also, 
> any opinions on whether this would make a difference in a system with 
> 512 MB of RAM and a PVR-250?  In read/write intensive apps like Oracle 
> OLTP databases, we see a huge improvement with RAID 1 or RAID 1+0 and 
> Myth seems fairly IO intense while recording or buffering Live TV.  
> Thanks in advance.

Get a 3ware ATA RAID controller.  I've used them in a couple of servers 
and they work great and very easy to install since their drivers are in 
the standard 2.4 kernels.

later,
ajay


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