On Monday 09 January 2006 21:49, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >Just another datapoint - I've been using a software raid setup for 12 > >months now with no issues with mythtv. My raid arrays are in a > >seperate machine from my dedicated backend and two frontends, they are > >all networked over gigibit ethernet using NFS. I've recorded 4 > >streams from PVR250s before while watching another stream without a > >problem. I am using ext3 filesystem on my arrays and the file server > >is a Duron 1Ghz machine. I have 9 drives connected to several $20 > >Promise IDE cards. Server is currently running Debian Sarge using > >mdadm tools. > > Most of the complaints I see around software raid come from people > with HD tuners. > > I've been using software RAID for a few weeks and I'm seeing the same > problems others are. I have two HD tuners and one PVR150 > with a 100mbit remote storage of 4 IDE drives in RAID 5. The PVR 150 > recordings are fine, but HD streams are not so great, especially > if I have auto-commercial detection running or anything else going > on while recording. I wonder if you had an HD tuner if any problems > would creep up. >
I'm looking at doing a 3 drive software RAID5 with a HD3000, PVR150 and HD cablebox over firewire. My RAID array will be local, if that makes a difference, but I'll respond as to whether I get corrupted recordings. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
