[mythtv-users] Question re: available SATA ports and linux software RAID

Richard Morton richard.e.morton at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 10:36:00 UTC 2011


> > RAID1 or RAID10, depending on budget. Mine is probably a minority
opinion,
> > though.
>
> What a weird view.. So you use RAID1 no matter what? forget about
> wasting that much disk ?
>
> You'll also find you get much greater resistance to hardware failure
> with parity RAID. You also get a greater throughput.
>

I would point out that a single write on a raid 5 or 6 requires multiple
reads and writes if the file is smaller than the blocksize... whereas this
is not the case with raid 1...

So as always it depends on the application, myth video recordings raid5/6 is
fine but for databases raid 1 or 10 will provide higher performance

R

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