[mythtv-users] USB Drive question

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

> >>> kuphal at dls.net 02/02/06 12:18 AM >>>
>PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
>> I've just lucked into 4 250gb usb drives.  Is this ok to use for 
>> livetv and recordings?  I'm planning to do xfs and either 
>> symlinking or some other method.  Is this ok, or should 
>> I break out my old server and set these ide drives up 
>> as internal and nfs mount them over to the 
>> mythbackend?
>>   
>My concern would simply be that in order to use 4 250gb 
>drives effectively, you need to use LVM.  Putting removable 
>media in an LVM setup is probably a bad idea.  If that disk 
>goes offline for any reason, your LVM partition is hosed.  
>USB drives can work great for Video, Music, or even 
>Images data, but I would never use it for my recording 
>partition or anything LVM related.

No way am I using LVM ever again.  I'm trying to save up 
some cash for a hardware raid5 solution.  I lost about 
3 years worth of recordings, some I don't care about, some 
that are not easily replaced.  I guess I'll just use these 
for backup, which is a decent idea for those hard to 
replace recordings.

I just thought these were such a good deal I could 
use them temporarily, but I guess I'll wait for 
another few months to put in my huge array.

Paul