[mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Friday 23 April 2004 17:48, Graham W. Mitchell wrote:
> The problem is Jarod, the lack of slots on most motherboards these
> days...

Very true... Especially for an HTPC.

> I'd like to put in a couple of ATA cards for disks, but with 
> 2x250s, a bttv card and sound card, I am plain out of slots.... Looks
> like I need to add another dedicated file server for this....

Heh, actually, that exactly what I'm very seriously considering right now. I'd 
move all (or at least most of) my tuner cards into a tower tucked away from 
the TVs, with several large drives, then run diskless with both my frontends 
(or perhaps just with some smaller, silent-as-possible drives).

> Or maybe 
> SATA is the way to go when the drives are cheap enough.

SATA helps... I think I've seen motherboards with at least 6 independent 
onboard SATA connectors... If only SCSI were much, much cheaper... =)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 7:12 PM
>
> Multiple driver per ATA bus will absolutely DESTROY performance. ATA is
> absolute crap when it comes to multiple devices per bus. Get a PCI ATA
> card
> for about $30, add it to your setup, and performance should at LEAST
> double.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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