[mythtv-users] NAS mobo

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Aug 21 13:39:06 UTC 2008


John Drescher wrote:
>> I can imagine that a couple of PCI-*x SATA cards plus 6 on-board SATA
>> ports can cause quite a few interrupts internally.
>>
>> So I'm looking for any suggestions for chipsets / brands /etc to
>> use/stay away from, and so on.
>>
> At work I have 20 SATA HDs in a 5 or 6 year old AMD server board. But
> more recently I have been using M2N boards similar to the one I posted
> for servers. I have a few with 8 to 10 750GB drives in software raid6.
> I am using AMD AM2 5500 processors and 4GB of Corsair or Gskill DDR2
> memory on each machine. These easily handle 10 drives. I would make
> sure you are using PCIe SATA controllers otherwise you will have poor
> performance.

Hadn't thought of PCIe, guess I'm living in the past with the 133Mhz.
64-bit bus architecture.

beww


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