[mythtv-users] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Fri Oct 24 20:54:11 UTC 2008


On Fri, October 24, 2008 12:45 pm, Mache Creeger wrote:
> Should we just pray that although the statistics say otherwise,
> native RAID5 on Linux will not self-destruct when using many large
> capacity drives?
>
> Any ideas?

Don't use RAID 5.  Use RAID 10 instead.  See this page for a humorous take
on why:
http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html




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