I'm using 4x 250GB PATA-100 Hard Drives ... two on the on-board nForce chipset... two on a Promise PDC20248. I'm using software RAID-5 across all 4 disks... I have 2x PVR-350's and 1x PVR-500 and have at times been recording 4 streams at once, while watching another. This is all on the same box, combined backend and frontend.
<br><br>I originally had a problem with using XFS for my video storage, but someone clued me into the 4k vs 8k stacks problem... but once that was solved, this thing runs solid.<br><br>I hope that helps.<br><br>Andy<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John P Poet</b> <<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com">jppoet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Agar</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel@agar.ca" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">daniel@agar.ca
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What kind of hardware do you have? My backend is a sempron 2600 with a gig<br>of memory.<br><br>Also which distro are you using? I've always gone with fedora for my<br>mythboxes.</blockquote></span><div><br>CPU: Pentium4
3.0GHz
<br>MEM: 1gig DDR400<br>Motherboard: Asus P4C800-E<br>Distribution: FedoraCore 6<br><br>I am using the SATA ports on the motherboard, supplemented by a Promise TX4 PCI SATA controller. Nice thing about Linux software raid -- you can mix and match any hard driver controller you want.
<br><br>John<br><br><br> <br></div><br></div>
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