[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives
Dan Wilga
mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Wed Feb 15 21:19:00 UTC 2012
On 2/15/12 10:04 AM, Jeff Siddall wrote:
> On 02/10/2012 06:08 PM, PJR wrote:
>
>> I want to hold all myth recorded data on RAID1, agree TV is not so
>> important but music and videos are.
>>
> Have you considered _not_ using RAID arrays? If you are mainly looking
> for redundancy RAID doesn't buy you much (single disk failure only).
>
While the RAID 1 the OP mentioned does, indeed, only allow for
single-disk failure, RAID 6 has a minimum of two-disk redundancy. Other
RAID configurations offer different degrees redundancy.
--
Dan Wilga "Ook."
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