[mythtv-users] Hard Drive reliability esp. RAID issues

[Richard Morton]

I am sure you will all have seen issues with RAID and dive failure;
with the readership of this list. I have just seen this article
covering the RAID5 issues and RAID6 lifespan.

The highlights are:

Today; RAID 5 with moderate amount of drives is likely to fail during
a rebuild following a drive failure; this has been well publicised
because of the error rate of drives.

RAID 6 is the short term solution at the expense of read/write
performance and second parity hard drive and the associated higher
costs.

And the info I thought would be of specific interest here: One drive
manufacturer specifies a significantly (an order of magnitude) more
reliable than the other notable brands:

> Western Digital’s Caviar Green, model WD20EADS, is spec’d at 10^15,
from:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=805&tag=nl.e539

R