<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Richard Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com">richard.e.morton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>No! Don't use the same drives for recording/media with OS / database / swap, keep recordings on separate disks to those that get hit hard for intermittant other activities. You need good throughput on your recording drives and you don't want the heads of the disks going crazy trying to satisfy a lot of media read and write requests while also doing a scheduler run.</p>
<p>Keep the os/database/swap on a sepaprate small (40gb) drive possibly ssd if you have the budget.</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thought I'd throw in my two cents worth. I definitely agree with Richard about using separate spindles for the OS/database and recordings.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And for those who want a convenient way to hot swap/configure 3.5" drives, I have purchased and recommend:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215081">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215081</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This is a cage that fits in three 5.25" external bays of a tower box and will hold 5 3.5" disks. Hot swappable, SATA. Plus it looks cool if a bit nerdy. I have used it to upgrade 5 1TB drives to 5 3TB drives all while the system was running.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do have to take exception with Martin on his comments about using 3TB drives. It isn't (or wasn't for me) straight forward. Yes, you have to use GPT format for partitioning and there are tools available to do that. And yes, GRUB2 does have support for RAID1 on the boot drive; however, I had a heck of a time getting grub2 to install on each of the five drives. While the install said it was successful (actually it said that it detected no errors) on each of the five drives, I can only boot successfully off of two of them, which is OK since I can set those two to be the first two drives in my BIOS hard drive boot sequence and I don't expect to have two drive failures at the same boot time. I'm sure it can be made to work, just don't believe that it's all easy. Make sure you test everything to be sure you have a working system before disaster befalls you.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- Ken E.</div></div>