[mythtv-users] esata drives - experience?

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, David Durham, Jr.
<david.durham.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:55 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  I have had decent success with the SYBA $19 card.
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020&Tpk=SD-SATA-4p
>  >  >
>  >  BTW, This is a SATA1 card but if you are using any SATA card on a PCI
>  >  bus you will not even get SATA1 speed so no need for a SATA2 card.
>  >  Remember that the PCI bus is limited to around 100MB/s.
>
>  Perfect.  Thank you much.
>

I have never used these with sata port replicators. But I have used
linux software raid (5 and 6) with them and I have had machines with 2
of these installed with 8 x 320 GB Segate 7200.10 drives.


John