[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

[jedi]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:01:27PM -0600, Craig Huff wrote:
> I am looking to expand my recording storage space.  I seem to recall some
> past threads on the list talking about issues with drives whose capacity is
> something greater than 1TB, but I don't remember what the threshold was nor
> what the issue(s) might be.

    Seagate had a bad run of drives back when that size of drive was starting
to become cheap and plentiful. They're not so bad now. Although it never hurts
to buy your drives from an outfit with good return policies.

> 
> FWIW, my mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI which supports SATA-I/II, and I'm still
> running Ubuntu 10.04/MythTV 0.23.
> 
> I'm also concerned with the possibility that I might have issues with
> SATA-III (6Gb/s) drives working on this system.  Are they backward
> compatible with SATA-II?
> 
> I am considering adding a 2TB WD disk to my system (WD2002FAEX).

     2TB drives aren't big enough to lead to the kinds of complications
that can arise from a drive being "too big". It also simplifies things
considerable if you aren't booting off a "big" drive. Then any BIOS level
shenanigans are eliminated.

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