[mythtv-users] INFO: RAID comparison for MythTV

[David]

MagicITX wrote:
> The problem is RAID
> 5 is hosed if two drives fail.  The more drives you have the more
> statistically likely you are to suffer a two drive failure.

If you are paranoid, then have you seen RAID6.
It's now considered production ready.
It will withstand 2 drive failures whereas RAID5 with a hot spare has a 
window of vulnerability during the resync period for the hot spare.

It is slightly less performant that RAID5 but as you have said, for Myth 
that's usually not an issue.

David