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

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Tue Oct 28 20:03:16 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:45:13PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > That's when you make the decision, "Do I keep 1 month of recordings  
> > and not worry about losing any of them or do I keep 2 months of  
> > recordings and risk losing ALL of them?"
> 
> Personally, if I were building a multi-disk Myth box today, I wouldn't
> use RAID for recorded video storage.  I'd use storage groups.  I don't

    Yup. Recordings are pretty disposable. It's all the other stuff that
you don't want to mess with again. Recordings are a relatively small part 
of my overall ~ 3.8TB dedicated to MythTV.

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