[mythtv-users] Disk Arrangement and LVM + JFS

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 03:33:58 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:30 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> Ben Curtis wrote:
>>
>> I understand your point, but I'm definitely going to use RAID5 for video
>> storage.  Performance isn't as much of an issue there as reliability,
>
> If reliability is your thing consider RAID 6.  Rebuild times are pretty long
> for RAID 5 when you use large drives, and that's on top of the time it takes
> you to source and install a new drive. During that time you're vulnerable to
> a second failure.
>
Only problem raid 6 would not make sense with his drives. I mean a 4
drive raid 6 is pretty silly. Your better off with raid 10 in that
case.

John


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