[mythtv-users] Recovering dead database + new RAID advice

[Dave Cunningham]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:59 PM, digid myth" <digidmyth at gmail.com> wrote:

<fix top posting!>

> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:37 AM, David Cunningham <ml at upsilon.org.uk>
> wrote:
>

>> Going forward I'm moving to an raid setup. I've got an SSD that I bought
>> a
>> few months ago when the price crashed that I intend to use for the OS/DB
>> and I've just bought 3x2TB disks to use in software RAID-5 for the media
>> store.
>>

> I would not recommend putting the 2tb drives in a raid 5 for your media.
> There are multiple reasons for this. One the raid will take for ever to
> build in the first place. The chance of a drive going bad on a rebuild are
> very high with that large of a drive, especially once the drives start
> aging.

Thanks for that - this is something I had never even consider and after
googling a bit it seems you are absolute correct about RAID-5

-- 
Cheers,
David