[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

Ronald Frazier ron at ronfrazier.net
Thu Feb 14 15:21:13 UTC 2008


>  raid5/6 has the problem that for each write he must read from all other
>  disk to generate the new hash values.

I'm certainly not a RAID expert, but isn't that only a problem for
modifying? Most of what myth is going to do is write lots of data in
big chunks. If you are rewriting an entire block of data at a time,
there should be no need to reread since any existing data is
irrelevant.

-- 
Ron


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