It does not seem to be at their online store, but in today's Fry's ad in the Los Angeles Times, they're advertising Western Digital 750GB SATA/300 hard drives for $179.99 (limit 4, no rebate req'd.) Price good 8/17/07 thru 8/21/07.

EDIT: This deal is back at Fry's. Price good thru Thurs 8/30/07.

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They have a 3 year warranty, too. Ask me how I know! (Yep, got two of 'em earlier today.)

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How much trouble is the manual setup to get these puppies to work with Myth ? i'm sorely tempted to use one in my next Mythbox...

The "manual setup" to use them in what way? As added storage, as the OS drive, etc. IOW, what do you plan to use the drive(s) for?

1. If you are setting up a new system, you can use auto install, a manual install is not required.

2. If you already have a running system and you want to add this as a second drive to your existing system, see the following article in the wiki: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php? ... driveHowTo

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"One big drive" .... for everything...
I don't like the principle of multiple drives screaming their bearings out...

Thanks, No. 1 is 'Plan A'...

I have been messing with the Storage Group features in SVN. That is an awesome feature coming in .21 going to make disk management a cakewalk.

Before the new uber-disk-storage thingie comes out in Myth, I think the best solution is to use mount points. I plan to hang one 750 under /myth/tv for my HDTV shows and another under /myth/video for my "dvd changer". I have a 300G drive that I'll do the install on, and it will hold the rest of /myth.

The install will be completely standard. All I will need to do is change fstab to put the drives where they need to be after an upgrade or install. If one of the drives goes south, I lose only the shows on that drive. (The reason I'm not as keen on LVM is that you lose the whole array when any member dies.)

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I used LVM for a year, and while I never had a problem, Liv2Cod is correct about the risk. I've been running with a strategy similiar to Liv2Cod 's for the past 6 months. I have 2 drives -- 500GB and 400GB. The 500GB is used exclusively for storing recordings (/myth/tv directory); the 400GB has everything else including O/S, swap, photos, music and TV recordings that I want to save for the long-term because I really liked them.

No DVD's on my system -- I have a SONY "juke box" for that and I use avimanager to keep track of what's in the "juke box"...

Marc

Me too, but I did have a problem. One drive died, and I was unable to rescue anything in the LVM. I'm living dangerously again, and am looking forward to the new Storage Group.

spalVl, care to give us a little review? I'm anticipating that you can just add a drive to the system, make a file system, and then add it ot the storage group and Myth just knows that it now has another directory to put stuff. And SATA vs. IDE doesn't matter (to Myth, anyway). Am I close?

Been there, lost that! Had my MBE setup and while I was building the backup system lost one of the LVM drives - Back to ripping all of the wife's 500 CDs and whatever videos we had on there.

What I do like about LVM is how easy it is to add more space. You just want to make sure you're backing everything up (I rsync to the backup system every night)

Probably taking this way off-topic now, but how do you have the jukebox hooked up to your Myth box? And when you say "and I use avimanager to keep track of" does that mean you only have access to it via a web browser?

I see today that the special price IS showing up on Outpost.com. So internet shoppers can get the same deal, possibly without obnoxious CA sales tax!

I tried to link it, but the characters confused the BBS software. It's on the front page at http://www.outpost.com today.

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No worries.... This is posted in "off-topic"

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Hey Mike,
We may need a way off-topic forum next!