[mythtv-users] Question on software RAID

[Dave Alden]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Why use Raid-5? Myth doesn't really need the I/O bandwidth
> you get from striping and you said its software Raid so you're
> going to up the CPU load. Instead you could just use the LVM
> to create a large volume set which is easier to extend.

(I'm not the original author, but I wanted to respond with why I'm
using RAID-5 :-).

I'm using RAID-5 so I have some failure protection.  :-)  I have
ripped my DVD collection (currently ~150) and have a rather large
collection of shows/movies/cd's from myth all stored on one large
partition.  With RAID-5, I can affrord to lose 1 drive and not
have to get divorced (I don't think my wife would stay with me
through the reripping process :-).

...dave