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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:41:33 +1000, you wrote:

>Stephen P. Villano wrote,
>
>> Can't think of any mobo that has a dozen SATA ports
>
>http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449#ov
>
>had 10, plus eSATA (assuming none shared). Probably not available any
>more. Maybe Gigabyte has others in their range now.

I have been looking at this one for my next Windows motherboard:

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=9408086
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX_R20

It has 8 SATA and 2 eSATA, plus the 6 USB 3.0 will work fine with a
drive each (or more) in an external mount.  And if those run out, then
it has three spare PCIe-16 slots for addon drive controllers.

I upgraded my MythTV box to an Asus M5A97 Evo last year - it has 6
SATA, 2 eSATA, 2 internal and 2 external USB 3.0.  It is much cheaper
than the Sabertooth board, and still has lots of ports.  The R2.0
version this year seems to still be the same.  The only downside of
this motherboard I have found is the RTL8116E/8168 ethernet - the
Linux drivers for it are crap, and I ended up installing a dual Intel
ethernet card.  I have 5 recording drives and 3 videos/pictures/music
drives in or hanging off that box now.  For videos/pictures/music
storage, the performance requirements are much lower than for system
or recording drives, so I am thinking of moving those drives to one of
these:

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=396942
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/ex-503/

That would give me 5 drives in one enclosure on one USB 3.0 port, and
I would be able to just unplug it and pop it on my laptop when I want
to go on holiday.