On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:09:00 -0500, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)
This is, in fact, exactly what I ended up doing with my Myth system. My master backend/frontend system is in the living room, but it only contains a single 8GB drive for the OS. All myth data is stored on the NFS server in the closet in the back room - connected via 100MB switched ethernet. I've had it running like this for about 3 months now and I have yet to see a single problem. Oh, the NFS server is a PII 266 with 192MB of RAM. I did have to install an additional IDE controller in order to support the dual 160GB drives in there as the motherboard was too old to support drives that big, but that controller only cost me $25. Brad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
