[mythtv-users] HELP! I want my mythtv!

[Simon Hobson]

Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you really need 4Tb for recordings?

Who could manage with "only" 4TB ? I've just added a second 3TB drive to my system. It's all time-shift - just that I'm struggling to find time to watch stuff as fact is it's recorded.

> You could consider putting them
> in raid1. That way a drive failure won't cost you your data. With
> raid1 reading is faster since it is spread over the two drives.

RAID1 (mirrored) is no faster at writing than the slowest disk in the array, and reading might not be any faster - it's very application dependent and in some cases the array can be slower than single drives. For Myth, unless you want the redundancy, then raid is not beneficial.