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

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 9/27/13 9:30 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 9/26/2013 3:49 PM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>
>         Since we are already off topic, does anyone have any
>         recommendations for a 4 port SATA card that doesn't need to
>         have RAID, but is still high performance? I have a two port
>         card in my server now, (the on board mobo only has 2 ports)
>         I'd like to expand it, but I think the card I have now is not
>         performing well at all, so I'd like to replace it with
>         something that is proven.
>
>
>     Considering the motherboard only has two ports, I'm guessing this
>     is an old board, and you're looking for PCI cards, in which case a
>     single hard drive is sufficient to saturate your entire bus.  If
>     that's the case, you're simply not going to get any performance
>     out of anything, and the best option is to upgrade to something
>     with more ports and/or PCI-express slots.
>
> It's a Dell PowerEdge 1U server, which may explain the lack of ports.
> I can't find the model number, but I think it's got a PCI-E port on
> it, but yes, I am seriously considering replacing it, if necessary, it
> sounds like a jet airplane most of the time...
>
>
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I have two Dell PowerEdge 2850's, they sound like the 1960's batmobile
spooling up when powered up.
But, they're dual Xeon processor units and can toss data about quite
efficiently.
Might reload one as a BE to see how it does.
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