[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives

[Rick]

On 2/15/2012 5:36 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:19:00PM -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> 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.
>      Well, there's a couple of issues here.
>
>          "It's just TV"
>
>          "RAID isn't a backup method"
>
>      Segregate your data based on how important it is and apply a different
> level of redundacy to the stuff that's really important.
>
>       Have multiple copies of the stuff that's important.
>
>       Have as many copies as you can manage.
>
>       RAID or not-RAID really doesn't impact any of that so much.
>

Living proof here :-)  My Readynas box with dual redundancy just crapped 
out on the OS and nothing I could do would save over 1000 tv shows.  Now 
I do an rsync every night to another BIG harddrive.  Live and learn.  
Luckily I could set all the shows to rerecord (if I live that long).

Rick