[mythtv-users] OT Hardware RAID 5 Recommendations
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Tue Dec 12 19:15:35 UTC 2006
George Galt wrote:
> Brett:
>
> Thanks, I'm looking for RAID5 which requires that a parity bit be set
> across all of the disks. This requires a fair bit of horsepower.
> RAID1 is (if I remember correctly) simply a mirror, which would be a
> waste of disk space. On that point, I'm not sure if software RAID
> does level 5.
>
>
I've been doing software RAID5 for years.
There's nothing to it; it barely loads up the CPU, even on underpowered
boxes.
If you need to sync a new drive, that will take a while, but otherwise
in operation it is transparent.
--Yan
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list