I highly recommend you read a couple of recent threads on HDDs before you make any purchases -- one is "A warning on Samsumg HDDs", the other is "Settling the HD argument". I posted the original message after my brand new Samsung drive failed after 419 hours (19 days).
Anyway, there is a lot of great information in those threads on HDD maintennance and troubleshooting. I know a lot of folks here use LVM but you might want to reconsider it. For me, one of ther biggest problems is that if one of the drives fails in an LVM, you stand a pretty good chance of losing everything in the volume. In my setup, I have a 20 GB drive for the OS, Myth application and live buffer, and two Maxtors (200 GB and 250 GB) for storage. One of the volumes is for recordings and music, the other is for transcoded programs and films. I actually have films on both volumes but symlinks work when it comes to populating the database and launching playback from within Myth. Seeing a brand new drive fail has certainly caused me to rethink using LVM. As it is now, if one of my storage drives fails, I lose everything on that drive (most of which is backed up on DVD-R. Small consolation, but I'd rather lose half than everything, and I'd rather have to restore 20 DVD-Rs of data rather than 40. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
