[mythtv-users] thoughts about 2 drives 1 video storage 1system + other
PAUL WILLIAMSON
pwilliamson at mandtbank.com
Wed Jan 25 15:37:41 UTC 2006
>>> kwilson at wmsco.com 01/25/06 10:22 AM >>>
> Les Gondor wrote:
>> Ryan Kremser wrote:
>>
>>> What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning
drives. I
>>> have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm
>>> considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive
where
>>> i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive.
>>> Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity?
>>>
>> There is the increase in reliability, as well. Separating the root
and video partitions onto
>> different spindles means that if one drive fails, you still have the
data on the other. Granted that
>> you might not be able to recover the video simply because of the
size, but you still have the
>> mythconverg data (and you might even have that if the root disk
fails if you have been dumping it
>> onto the video partition). Adding a drive removes eggs from the one
basket you have them in right now.
>>
>>
>Yes, but you double your chances that a drive will fail...
>
>Just a thought
Following on that thought...you'll then be half a likely to lose any
one of the partitions of data. ;-)
Paul
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