HTPC hardware

[kurt at verruckt.org]

Some boards (most that ive seen) that have onboard SATA, support SATA raid.
With the WD 10k Raptors hovering just over $100, two of them would give you
far better performance than 7200k ide's. Though you will lose a fair amount
of disk space. Just depends what you want more, space or performance. My new
comp that im building is going to be sata raid 0, just picking up a piece at
a time. Should have it up and going by the first of the year unless MGE
decides to put me out of my house...

----- Original Message -----
From: "brad" <brad at bradandkim.net>
To: "Jason Clinton" <me at jasonclinton.com>
Cc: <kclug at marauder.illiana.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: HTPC hardware

> On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 16:18, Jason Clinton wrote:
>
> > So long as you're putting this thing together, you might also check out
> > motherboards that have SATA support. All of the SATA MB's that I've seen
> > have RAID 0+1 and SATA gives an additional transfer rate boost. Also,
> > there are some 10k RPM drives out there that only support SATA. 5.x ms
> > seek times totally kick ass. :)
> >
> >
> I saw that on some of the MB specs...serial ATA or something?  So its
> faster than a normal RAID controller?  I would love to go with 10K rpm
> drives, but looking at the budget.....hmmmm.  Was thinking about 4 7500K
> 40 Gig drives to give me decent space (although MythTV and webcam feeds
> will eat it up fast) and spread the writes out more.  I will look at
> SATA though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
>
>
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>

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