On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:42 -0400, Bryan Halter wrote: > Well to start with for RAID you need to have disks that are all the same > size (preferably the same model). I believe Linux supports growing > software RAID volumes and I'm sure someone will correct me if it > doesn't. Personally I'd go out and buy a 4 device SATA-RAID controller > and 4 250GB drives that will give you 750GB of storage and fewer > headaches since the RAID array will be seen as any other scsi disk and > the card will do the thinking so you won't take a CPU hit for having > RAID. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
My recommendation as well - and I did it. In fact, I built a nice little "Media NFS Server" using an old Pentium 3 that I had lying around (free), an Adaptec AAR-2400A 4-channel ATA/100 RAID Card for $109 (shipped) off of Ebay, and 4 - 200GB Maxtor IDE drives at $70 each (shipped) (Fry's Outpost). As it turns out, I already had 2 - 200GB drives in my frontend, so I really only spent a total of $249. :-) You could go SATA, but IDE is gonna be cheaper, and I haven't had any problems with performance yet. -b
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