[mythtv-users] Pixelation/Bad Recordings HDHR Prime -- I am at my wits end

[Raymond Wagner]

On 9/26/2013 4:14 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
> On 9/26/13 3:24 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>> On 9/26/13 2:53 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>> On 9/26/2013 12:52 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>>>> I got snookered a few years back into purchasing a fakeraid
>>>>> card (was sold as a real RAID, but it's software RAID).
>>>> There's a quick and infallible way to check.  If the card comes with a
>>>> big chunk of soldered memory, or better yet a DIMM slot, it's real
>>>> RAID.
>>> A bit further OT, any recommendations on a good RAID card for my next
>>> build?
>> My last upgrade was an LSI 9201-16i and ZFS.  So far, so good... On
>> that note, I've got an old ARC-1230 lying around if you're interested.
> When I get the spare bucks, I'll keep you in mind. With that and the
> drives I have on hand, as well as a server case with hot plug drive
> slots, it'd be all that I need (save another mobo) to toss another four
> terabytes onto the network here.

The bigger "takeaway" from that was that I was suggesting, as Eric 
Sharkey did, to just find a nice disk controller and do software RAID, 
not buy my used 7yr old RAID card.  After all, hardware RAID is 
ultimately nothing more than software RAID running on a little embedded 
computer built into a PCIe card.