[mythtv-users] Reassemble RAID with mdadm

[Phillip Barnett]

I've got 320 disks in an Avid ISIS (not strictly RAID, but obscure  
algorithmic data spreading) array running 24/7, and lost about 3 in  
the past year, so about 1% a year.
Granted these disks are probably not consumer grade, but I put 4  
Maxtor disks in two Tivos in 2001, and they're still running, and  
actually recording every second of every day since.

Anecdata, eh!

Phillip

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On 19 Mar 2010, at 12:40, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On a modern CPU, there is a theoretical slowdown calculating  
>> parity, but
>> my quad core runs about 5% of one core when I'm thrashing the  
>> drives hard.
>> Frankly, any modern system has CPU to burn, and I don't believe  
>> parity
>> calcs are a real-life impact on performance.
>>
>
> Agreed. Even on 5 year old systems the cput hits 7% max unless the you
> are rebuilding or reshaping then it can hit 25% on 1 core..
>
>> RAID5 is the most space/cost efficient.  You get n-1 space, so with  
>> a 5
>> drive array, you get 4 disks worth of space.
>>
> Agreed again
>
>>
>> I had a lot of problems with RAID5 and consumer grade disks.  My  
>> disks are
>> generally failing about 1 every 3-6 months, in a 6 disk array.   
>> Which makes
>> sense if you figure the life of a drive is 2-3 years.  My theory  
>> here is
>> that consumer grade drives are made to a budget.  They give a 3 year
>> warranty, but they're assuming you don't run it 24x7.
>
> There is something very strange here. I have 100+ such disks in raid
> and  I see 1 to 3 total failures per year running 24/7/365. And these
> are systems that I guarantee are used more than your Mythtv box.
>
> John
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