On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:02:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use 4 IDE drives on the motherboard's (2) IDE controllers. Using them as a > stripe set in their master-slave configuration is fine, even for my > VideoToaster which does uncompressed D1 NTSC/PAL video. I don't quite think > it is as fast as 60 MB/s, but if I remember right the test utility reported > an average of ~52 MB/s... until about 40% of drives were used then it quickly > dropped down to ~26-22 MB/s. I'm still wondering how USB 2.0 would do... yes > it'd be a permanent connection, and cheaper than SCSI, and possibly cheaper > than SATA, especially since I have no open PCI slots, but available USB 2.0 > ports.
With a lack of PCI slots and IDE channels, USB seems like the next available option. I personally would have opted for an external NFS server before paying for external drives, however. Gigabit or even 100 meg ethernet should be reasonably fast for video, especially if it's dedicated and on a switch, and you can get an NFS server running on a pretty low-end system (assuming it supports large drive capacities, of course). Plus it gives you future expandability (and you can seperate your frontend/backend like that as well) - Jeff _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
