David Bennett wrote: >>If you want to buy an off-the-shelf NAS then that's different. >> >> >Do you think that is a viable option? I can't help but thinking if I >have this backend (a fairly large case too!), that I should use it to >run as my backend, and run a few drives in it on a RAID setup. On the >other hand I have been hearing many good things about ReadyNAS ... so >I am a little conflicted. > > I'm not the best person to ask :) I've never researched them and would rather build my own - but that's not necessarily a 'rational' thing - more for fun and learning. I don't think there are any technical reasons that it won't work. If you have a single-box approach then spend more money on a decent mb (maybe go Intel rather than nvidia/VIA), psu (really), case (eg lian-li or other aluminium ones)
>>high CPU and temperatures - and maybe DMA issues. If you are worried >>about network bw, then drop a cheap gig card in both the NAS and BE. >> >> >If I do decide to go with a gig card, do you have any experience with >them? Should any brand/model be safe, or does gig networking still >have issues to be worked out with Linux? > > Yes. I have 3 Intel e1000 cards that are back in their boxes after I (together with months emailing the incredibly helpful Intel driver developer - who even got Intel to buy the same mb as me) couldn't get them to work on my VIA based mb. I now use Marvell based ones - slower but they work. If you have an intel system then get the e1000 they are supposed to be the best. >Finally, would you by chance remember the option to keep the drives >from spinning down with Hdparam? Still no luck in finding the option >(or even if I can get it to work with my sata's) but I have a feeling >that might be the culprit! > > hdparm -S0 IIRC - yup I checked. David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
