[mythtv-users] Building new MythTV system, hardware help

[Andrew Close]

On 3/2/06, Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:
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> This has worked OK for us in 32-bit slots; the biggest limitation is that it
> won't create volumes larger than 2 TB.  My most recent project (a Linux-based
> security DVR that captures video and audio with a PVR-150) only needed 1.1 TB,
> but if you plan on creating >2-TB volumes, you might look into this:
>
> http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm
>
> We've rolled out servers with 5.4-TB RAID-5 arrays with this.  Those particular
> systems were deployed with Windows on them, but I had an AMD64 Gentoo install
> on a USB disk for testing purposes that worked with it.
>
> (All numbers are real terabytes, not salesman's terabytes.  The 1.1-TB RAID-5
> array is four "400-GB" Seagate SATA drives, while the 5.4-TB array is 16 of the
> same drives.)

and how many of those systems do you have set up at home in your Myth setup? :)