[mythtv-users] Contemplating a major change

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Apr 6 16:49:41 UTC 2014


On 4/6/2014 3:33 AM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 10:56:04 PM Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> Just the same, aside from ease of booting, there are only disadvantages to
>> running hardware RAID10, not to mention unnecessarily expensive.
> ? Apart from probably being overkill for a media centre, Raid 10 provides
> superior read/write performance over anything else and is doubly redundant.

The "hardware" part was key.  The only thing hardware RAID10 gives you 
over software is ease of boot.  Hardware RAID is only beneficial when 
you have to perform parity calculations, and even then it's largely 
inconsequential on a modern CPU.


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