Crashing

My system seems to be rather unstable lately. I think I have tracked it down to something in the display chain. Either the nvidia drivers, or the nvidia card (integrated) itself. The system can record for hours on end, and I can watch dvds (from the dvd) and movies (stored on the hd) with no problems. However, as soon as I try to watch something in HD, I get kernel oops' that seem to start at the nvidia drivers, and cascade to everything else. I have to reboot to heal it. I have tested the memory extensively (memtest86+ for over an hour), and gone back to the previous driver. No luck. I guess it could have something to do with the kernel. I am not sure whether my next step will be to buy a standalone card, or to upgrade to feisty. Both have their pros and cons. But not being able to watch any hd stuff is getting old fast.

New HD

I installed a new hard drive (500gb samsung sata) a few weeks ago. Rather than install an SVN of mythtv (for StorageGroups), I decided to just put all my recordings on the new drive, and keep everything else (system (incl db), music, movies, pictures, etc) on the 250gb drive.
I haven't been watching tv much lately (it's spring!), so needless to say, I quickly filled that up too, and started archiving stuff over to the 250. Which is also now full. I started transcoding just about everything down to 540p (mpeg4), which still looks great, just not quite as great. And rather than the 6-8gb/hr, it only takes up about 1.2gb/hr. I am going to have a lot of catching up to do :-)

I still think I am going to pick up another 500gb drive though. I will have to get creative with my mounting, as my case only has two harddrive spots. I am thinking I can attach it to the lid of the case using some string or rubber bands (to keep the vibrations down). At which point I will need StorageGroups.