Hi, careful about temperature i regard to HDs ! I found out that e.g. Samsung 200G PATA disks consume only about 9w power whereas other (faster, bigger, better) drives consume 15-20w, which results in a huge difference in temperature output. I would recommend to use more low-power drives than fewer high-power ones.
Just my 2c ... Schlomo On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote: > Are all those drives going to fit in that case?? > > On Apr 6, 2005 2:32 PM, Milan Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm planning on sqeezing as much as I can into a microATX case > > to make my mythtv frontend/backend. I also want to make this > > a media storage box/file server, ie. include a RAID 5 LVM storage setup. > > > > I'm basically stuck on the RAID. Since I do not have enough data > > *right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5, I'd like to just buy two > > drives now and use mdadmin to > > setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes on. > > > > I know it's required to have 3 drives to make a RAID 5 array. But is > > there a way to fake so I can add a third drive later? Or do I just > > have to fork up the cash now? > > > > If you could post your partition scheme or how you setup > > your partitions/drives it would help me. > > > > Has anyone tried to mix/match devices like ATA and SATA to create a raid 5 > > with > > md? I know it's crazy but i'm just trying to consider the options for > > the time being. > > > > Here's some of my proposed hardware setup (still in the works) : > > > > hauppauge 250 > > > > Motherboard : > > MSI K7N2GM2-LSR nForce2 K7 400 DDR400 VGA 8X LAN SATA-RAID MicroATX > > http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.php/products_id/162 > > > > HDs: > > 3 x 300G SATA Maxtor Maxline III 16MB buffers > > http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2094 > > > > Case: > > Cooler Master ATC-620C-BX1 Cases microATX Form > > http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=11-119-024&depa=0 > > > > Since the MB only has two SATA ports (couldn't find one with 4 onboard > > and better to have a card anyway incase i change MB's one day) on it > > i'll probably end up needing a SATA card. like the Promise TX4 (4 > > Port) if i want a RAID 5 ... > > http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=16-102-038&depa=1 > > > > Thanks for any help! > > -- > > Stuck in a microATX life. > > -- > > Milan > > http://del.icio.us/milo/myhtpc1 > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > -- Regards, Schlomo
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