A guy I know just picked up an ultra-wide scsi controller, cables, sca
adapters and two 10,000 rpm 18 gig drives for less $100 delivered.

It'd probably work well for any live tv and playback.

Just archive shows to cd or your massive IDE drive when the scsi's are
getting full.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Fuchs [mailto:kfuchs at winternet.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:09 PM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] MythTV box

Jason Jorgensen wrote:

>I only suggest that you get fast hard drives for the myth server, also 
>try to use a dedicated partition for the storage so the shows don't
ever 
>halt your OS. Watching shows on multiple clients while recording others

>makes we worry about my poor drives.

Has anyone tried using software or hardware RAID for this application?
A simple RAID 0 (software or hardware and ATA or SCSI) might work well
here instead of or in addition to fast hard drives.  Redundancy wouldn't
be that important for home use, but should be a consideration for office
use.  For performance and redundancy, RAID 01 or RAID 03 might be best,
RAID 3 or 5 next best?

There are a lot of older RAID hardware that would work fine for this
application both at home and the office.  There are a lot of computer
recycling companies in the metro area that may have used RAID hardware
for sale.

Sincerely,

Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com>

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