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

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Thu Feb 16 21:58:43 UTC 2012


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:37:41PM -0800, Michael Papet wrote:
> >Sounds like RAID is just too hard to get working (from
> >a HW perspective) and judging by no recommendations, yet, as to suitable
> >drives (meeting my requirements), that confirms it.
> 
> Debian's installer has a painless method of creating a software RAID1.  Mythtv packages are available at debian-multimedia.org  RAID1 is not backup.  But, between some kind of RAID, ext3, smartd and logwatch it's your own complete lack of follow-through if you lose a partition.  I mean it!  It doesn't get any easier than that.

   Even doing it all manually from scratch doesn't seem to be an issue. 
It's all pretty simple and well documented. "Suitable" is always a tricky 
issue since you may end up with contradictory assumptions.

   The array I have full of consumer drives seems to be working out pretty 
well so far. Although I don't put it under much stress. It's just used for 
backup storage.

   The only thing I would avoid is WD green drives and that seems to be a
general rule of thumb rather than just a RAID thing.

> 
> What kind of awful 1U does NOT ship with a hardware RAID and better disks? If there is such a 1U, you did this to yourself.  If you are so committed to racked hardware, then stop messing around and get a Compaq DL380 3U.

   Interesting. Does that come in a tower version?

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