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ok, so I get the feeling this is going to be one of those painful
experiences....<br>
<br>
My older gigabyte motherboard on the backend isn't detecting my new
500Gb SATA drive (checked in a PC at work and the drive is fine), tried
IDE mode and everything I could google on it.<br>
So I'm left with the following thoughts....<br>
<ul>
<li>Do I upgrade my motherboard, CPU and RAM just so I can use my new
Hard drive - but then most new motherboards don't have serial ports to
change channels or enough PC cards to run 2 x Skystar + 1 x PVR150 and
another NIC.<br>
</li>
<li>Or do I put the new drive in a USB2 case and put up with the
significantly reduced access speed.</li>
<li>Or do I use the SATA for something else and get an IDE version.<br>
</li>
<li>Or do I buy a NAS enclosure and run it so that the Frontends pull
media directly off the NAS rather than via backend.</li>
<li>Or do I muck around for 3 days trying to get the BIOS to
recognise the drive.</li>
</ul>
In the end, I came to the conclusion that none of the above solutions
are really ideal and all of the compromises are too high.<br>
<br>
So I think I've decided to....<br>
<ul>
<li>Buy a Linksys NAS200 and will put the SATA drive into that, this
will be used for storing all none TV media like images, MP3's, xvids
and raw video from my camcorder that hasn't been edited yet, i'll mount
my /myth/video directory on that using Samba.Works out ok because my
other storage is splitting at the seams with non myth media.<br>
</li>
<li>Bought another 500Gb Ide drive that will go into the myth box.</li>
</ul>
A few years ago I might have mucked around with it trying to get it
going, but I've learnt that 9 times out of 10 when you do this, it will
only break at some highly inconvinient point in the future and probably
won't work anyway. Unfortunately my first experience with SATA has not
been a pleasant one.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Toby<br>
<br>
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