[mythtv-users] Storage Questions. LVM, RAID, NFS

[Dean Wilson]

Thanks, guys!

It sounds like Raid 5 is the way to go -- I'll order the hard drives today!

One more quick question:  I currently have two first generation SATA
drives, and will be adding 2 SATA II drives, and 1 P-ATA drive.  I
imagine that the slower drives will slow the whole process a little
bit (hopefully insignificantly?).  My question is this:

Given that I'll have a wide variety of drives, will it make any
difference how much of a buffer the drives have?  (8MB vs 16MB)   Any
other suggestions (like buying from different manufacturers to avoid
disks dying at the same time) that I should be aware of?

Thanks!