[mythtv-users] OT: help selecting drives for server

[Nasa]

----- "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I'm sure questions like this come up all the time -- so I was hoping
> someone could give me some advise on this...
> >
> > I have a server that has a hardware raid card (I already had it, so
> plz no flaming on hardware vs software raid) which has 8 SATA ports.
>  I presently have 2 RAID-5 arrays setup for a total of 2.8T of space.
>  I have managed to come close to filling up the space and am looking
> to upgrade.  One array is made up of 3 drives (2x750GB, 1x1TB) and the
> other is made up of 4 500GB drives.  I would like to keep the number
> of times I have to rebuild this to as few as possible and the fewer
> the drives the better.
> >
> > I would like to use drives larger than 1TB, however, the 2TB drives
> are pretty pricey right now.  I'm not sure I trust the Seagate 1.5TB
> drives (any one have comments on them?) and WD says it's desktop
> edition drives are not appropriate for RAIDs (they suggest the Raid
> Editions for more $$$).  And I don't really now much about the Hitachi
> drives...
> >
> > So I was hoping someone out there has some suggestions on which way
> to go...
> >
> 
> My suggestion is to loose the raid arrays and use storage groups with
> each individual drive being a storage group. Add a 1TB drive or two
> now and all should be well for some time. You should be able to get a
> 1TB drive for around $100 USA.
> 
John,

What's the advantage of using storage groups?  I am running svn and have noted that 
storage groups are much more expanded then in 0.21 -- but I really don't get 
their advantage over using something like symlinks....  (expect the scenario where
you are saving a tv series to a particular folder, but that requires editing myth-setup
every time you want to add a new series (right?))

Nasa