[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

Ralf Kleineisel ralf at kleineisel.de
Thu Feb 14 16:20:18 UTC 2008


Janne Grunau wrote:

> On the other hand RAID5 should be fast enough for more than a couple of 
> HD streams. A single HD stream has ~20mbit/s and a modern hard drive 
> should do ~80MByte/s (640mbit/s).

I have tested a Pentium 4 2,8 GHz with 5 Maxtor 7Y250M0 in software RAID 5.
According to hdparm it does > 140 MByte/s read throughput.


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