[mythtv-users] The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:29:34AM -0600, Joe Ripley wrote:
> On 10/18/07, Sean Goodpasture <goofygrin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Nice thing about unraid is that it boots off a memory stick, so no need for
> > another drive (which would cost more and take up space in the box).
> 
> My system isn't nearly as large (only 1.5 TB), however, I just wanted
> to mention that you don't need a dedicated drive just for booting when
> using software RAID.  I usually make my boot drive a RAID1 across all
> of my installed disks, just to make sure the system can boot in the
> event of multiple drive failure.

Booting off a mirror is ok.  I just get hives whnm people tell me their
boot drive is on a RAID 5.

"mak[ing] your boot drive a RAID1 across all your disks" implies two
things I can't get my head around: mirroring more than 2 drives, and
what I assume is mirroring only single partitions?

Cheers,
-- jra
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