[Mageia-discuss] TV Cards

[AL13N]

Op maandag 3 september 2012 20:43:33 schreef 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.

don't use onboard raid or fakeraid cards... even the software raid is more 
efficient... (these chips use regular CPU for raid anyway)

only hardware raid (read $$$) will be able to help you.

external disk will not help at all, unless it's a small nas so as to offload the 
IO.