From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: OT: Advice on SATA sought Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:49:27 -0800 Message-ID: <40684587.2010001@namesys.com> References: <406605A4.7020903@edsons.demon.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <406605A4.7020903@edsons.demon.nl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Rudy L. Zijlstra" Cc: the filesystem Rudy L. Zijlstra wrote: > Greetings, > > > I am considering buying some 250G SATA drives (3 in a RAID5 config) > for multimedia backend storage. > disks will likely be WD SATA WD2500JD unless somebody points out good > reasons not to. Can get those for about 200 Euro excluding VAT each. > This is going to be used to store interactively accessed MPEG2 video > files. They will be stored from at least 2 (on short notice 3) > sources, and simultaously read from 2 or 3 locations. In other words: > storage backend for a MythTV setup with 2 or 3 backends, and multiple > frontends using a combination of PVR-250 and PVR-350s. 350 for > frontend connected to a TV, several frontends using X for output. > > The controller i am considering is the Promise SATA TX4. > kernel: 2.6.4 or later from kernel.org on a recent slackware-current > distro. > > Any experience, either with this controller, with SATA, with other > controllers, please share so I can make a better decision. I've > currently no real experience with SATA. > > Filesystem choice has been made: Reiserfs3. This is going to be a > production machine, I will not yet test Reiserfs4 on that. Too risky > considering "comments" i would get on failure... > > Regards, > > Rudy > > > xfs might be better for this than v3, to be honest. delayed allocation matters for this workload. -- Hans