[vdr] Re: VDR feature request

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:33 CET, "Peer Oliver Schmidt"
<pos@theinternet.de> wrote:

> 
> Hennebert Philippe writes:
> >to acquire 365 x 2 x 3.5 GB = 2.5 TB of hard drive space per year (how
> >would I arrange the disks, both physically and logically?), whereas a monthly
> >investment of 150 EUR for DVD-Rs seems to me quite reasonable.
> 
> Just to be ot as well, the cheapest way to get a TB HD space is utilizing 
> a 6 Port IDE RAID Controller + 120GB Samsung 5400 drives. Total cost 
> for 1080 GB is 1766 EUR + VAT. Okay, you have to add an enclosure 
> for the drives, and I guess those run another 150-200 EUR.

What 6 Port IDE Raid Controller do you mean?

I have bought a Promise SX6000 and it allows only to use 6 disks. As
Raid 5 you would need two of them with each 5 disks (4+1) to reach 1 TB.
But the price would be similar to that what you posted. The problem is
that I have only one pci slot free. I have to wait for the 320 GB Maxtor
to get the required capacity with one controller.

BTW, I will not use the Raid5 capability of the SX6000 because it allows
only to build Raid5 disks from complete disks. With this it is
impossible to do an upgrade to more disks without backup. I will
configure 3  single drive volumes and use Linux raid functionality the
same way as now. A upgrade to more drives is then no problem.

Emil


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