[mythtv-users] Another take on large-capacity disk enclosures

[Yeechang Lee]

Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> says:
> It takes a desktop-class system about 6-10 hours to check a 2 TB raid-5
> array.  You really don't want a single large array comprising of 20 1.5 TB
> drives; fsck would take weeks.

Not in my experience. My 6.6TB software RAID 6 array on 16 disks using
JFS takes only a few minutes to fsck, and the 1.6GHz Xeon is nowadays
hardly state of the art (especially since software RAID does not use
more than one core).

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