[mythtv-users] OT Hardware RAID 5 Recommendations

[Steven Adeff]

On 12/12/06, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Brett Kosinski <fancypantalons at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've lost a few disks recently, including one on my MythTV box.  I'm
> > > considering building a server that would hold MythTV files, photos,
> > > music, as well as back-ups of important documents on other machines,
> > > and so I've looked into going with hardware raid-5.  Does anyone have
> > > any suggestions for cards?
> >
> > Any reason you're not considering software RAID?  While the performance may
> > not be as good, at least you don't have to worry about fried RAID
> > controllers.
>
> Not particularly.  I had assumed that it would overload the chip (an
> old Athlon XP 2000), especially if this same system is being used as a
> mythbackend (and Slimserver, and a few other things).
>

I had a 3 disk raid 5 array running on my AthlonXP 1600 and the most I
ever saw it use under heavy load was 10%. I did once have to rebuild
the array after I stupidly killed the power to it during a large
write. That obviously took a while on the machine, which thankfully
didn't need to do anything else at the time.

So that should give you a good point. Also think of it this way, for
$300 you can buy a new mobo, Athlon64 and 1GB of RAM, which overall is
a better use of $300 in my opinion.

-- 
Steve
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