With IDE you only want one drive on a cable (controller port) as only one drive can transfer data at a time. You can get a 2nd IDE controller card (better to get a S/ATA card perhaps at this point) and run 3 HD's using the 4th channel for your CD/DVD drive. Best to get the largest disks you can (but look for 3yr warranties which tend to be more expensive).
Sunday, March 20, 2005, 9:53:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > no, but I was thinking about trying it with 4 drives > I did try using two WD 120 gig drives (8 MB buffer, connected via IDE) > buffers in a stripe set. > It actually did worse performance wise than a single WD 160 gig (also 8 MB > buffer). > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, March 20, 2005 9:02 pm > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 160 gig WD - $40 >> that sounds like a famously bad idea to me... >> >> >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:26 -0400, Jonathan Markevich >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Anthony Vito wrote: >> > >> > >>Now I just need to find some places to mount all >> > >>these drives.... >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > >LVM is beautiful thing as well ;) >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Which reminds me, has anyone tried to span a LVM volume to >> include an >> > external USB 2.0 drive? >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > mythtv-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> > >> >> >> -- >> email me if you want a gmail invite, I have some invites >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >>
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