[mythtv-users] 2 TB Hard Drive Recommendations

[Fedor Pikus]

Do not use RAID5 with disks over 1TB. Use RAID6. The probability of
disk error while reading the whole disk is so high that it is very
likely that after replacing a failed disk the array will fail to
reconstruct. In RAID5 second fault, even transient, destroys the
array.

On 12/6/10, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought 5x500gb drives from different manufacturers and models.
>
> The only one to die was one of the maxtors.
>
> I have a 1.5tb drive and a 2tb samsung
> I did buy a wd 2tb green drive (as previously mentioned) but dispite reading
> everything couldnt get good throughput and it was sent back.... maybe it was
> a bad drive.
>
> R
>
> Please excuse brevity and pistakes, this email was sent from my Android
> smart phone.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Richard Morton
>

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