[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/21/2014 11:57 AM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
> Didn't like their choice of RAID controller though, I've tended to
> prefer hardware RAID or let Linux do the RAID, as some software RAID
> controllers have significant overhead issues.

It was my understanding their "storage pods" contained three rows of 
fifteen drives each, running 5:1 port multiplier backplanes into dumb 
controller cards, and each row was a 13+2 LVM RAID6 formatted using JFS.