[Mageia-discuss] TV Cards

[ed]

On 09/03/2012 06:08 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Ed and Al13N (I keep forgetting your name -- doh!),
>
> Le 2012-09-03 14:19, AL13N a écrit :
>> Op maandag 3 september 2012 12:40:14 schreef ed:
>>> On 09/02/2012 03:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
>>>> I am mounting a Mageia PVR system.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to mount 2-3-4 TV cards on the same box? I've put 2
>>>> cards in and I am getting a "PCI device ... unknown header type 7f,
>>>> ignoring device ..." warning.
>>>>
>>>> I was hoping to PVR 2-3 programmes at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Marc
>>>
>>> you won't have the hard drive I/O bandwidth, unless you go with a
>>> dedicated raid card and a ton of memory.
>>
>> SSD
>>
>
> My youngest son was telling me that I should go for SSD, but I bought 
> a terabyte drive instead. The computer guy said that it should work 
> better than an external drive (which I would have prefered -- my wife 
> could then move around the house better with the drive -- its a little 
> easier to understand than with the NFS thingy). Yes, SSD would have 
> been neat though!
>
> Raid --- hmmmm, my board doesn't have raid -- ASRock 775i65G. Not sure 
> how to implement this, or if even worth it. The computer is just a box 
> I had sitting not being used.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
it's not disk read write speeds, although that is part of it, it is 
northbridge to cpu bottlenecks.