I'm not quoting anyone... but thought I'd drop in my $.02. I'm currently using a 4x250GB PATA RAID5 setup in my backend with 4 total tuners (2xPVR-350, 1xPVR-500) and I'm quite happy with the performance of everything... even with all tuners recording and me watching playback... everything is smooth as butter... other than the occasional DMA issue I have due to the VIA chipset on the motherboard (to be replaced soon), everything is happy.
<br><br>I can honestly say... speed issues aside... the main reason for the RAID setup in my .20 setup is data integrity. I really don't have any interest in losing all of my recordings. I'm sure there are some Super-Cool (tm) things coming with
v.21... but even then... you have the potential for dumping all of the recordings on one disk. With RAID... I can just replace the drive.... and continue on... heh assuming I can still find a PATA 250GB drive when one of them fails.
<br><br>So... keeping the wife from beating me about the head and neck for losing her recorded shows... that's the motivation for RAID.<br><br>Yay.<br>