Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm trying a couple of options and will take photos and post before and after shots of my wire situation. Hopefully it will be good enough to eliminate the unsightly mess.
> > 2. DVDs on Myth. I have ripped quite a few (about 40%) > > of our collection to Myth, but I've run out of space and > > need to figure out what my next step is. > If you didn't setup your system using LVM, I don't know > what your options are for growing a filesystem. Set up using LVM. No problem there. It's the physical space in the machine I've run out of. External firewire or USB sounds like it may fit the bill. <snip> > You don't mention your current case or what's installed in it, > so it's hard to offer much here other than to point you to > online shopping sites. ;) Good point. Mythbackend with all the storage is a whitebox PC with atx mobo and 6 drives in it. No more physical space. I was thinking about one of these boxes: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=300439&pfp=BROWSE http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811125446 I don't care about looks or noise. This is in a room far away from any viewing areas. I can probably stuff more in either one with one of the 2 bay 3 drive adapter brackets. I just need to add some monster cooling. Then I don't know how to add all the supporting connections unless I have lots of PCI cards to support all the extra devices. I guess that's why an external firewire enclosure would be fairly convenient. > silentpcreview.com has reviews and comparisons of the > quietest drives available. My current pick would be the > new 200G Samsung; I have two of their 160G > spinpoints and have been very happy with them. Agreed. I have a 120 spinpoint and an very happy with it in my frontend. > I think I would build up my backend to be able to supply > capacity (storage, bandwidth, CPU if transcoding is an issue) > and look at how to supply multiple mythfrontend feeds to the > televisions you have. Fortunately, I had planned for this, so no issues there. I can supply the feeds, I just can't store enough. Maybe I'll need to suck up and deal with plunking down some coinage for one of the firewire enclosures like this: http://www.cooldrives.com/mubay85fi800.html Paul
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