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

[Brian Wood]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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.

Software RAID5 perhaps, but do you see a problem booting off a hardware
RAID5 partition?

beww