[vdr] Re: Disk suggestions?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

Am Sam, 2002-07-20 um 19.55 schrieb Antonino Sergi:
> On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 12:23, Carsten Koch wrote:
> > 
> > IMHO, as a home user you want individual disks with individual mount
> > points and file systems. No LVM, no RAID. 
> > So, if one disk fails, you lose at most the data on that one disk. 
> > That also makes you much more flexible in regard to reconfigurations,
> > testing a new Linux distribution, adding/changing disks, etc.
> >
> I agree; that would be my wish but there is a limitation on the number
> of disks; even if I get an additional ide controller I loose a PCI slot
> that's not very good to me, but nobody can have the moon (actually I
> know that every m^2 of the Moon has been sold(???!!!)...., but this is
> another matter)
> 

If you've problems with enough controllers put 160GB Maxtors in your
VDR-Box. Few big disks are not so noisy and they usually have a higher
througput as they have higher density on the disks. Isn't that far from
a two-disk RAID.

Rene