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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Ritter</b> <<a href="mailto:dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu">dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:31:26PM -0500, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:<br>> So if i bought 4x500gb sata drives, than used my IDE 320gig, could the 320
<br>> server as the redundancy one and i would still get close to 2TB for storage,<br>> or would i have to partition each drive by 250gig's, have 70 left on the 320<br>> and the 250gig on the IDE could be the redundancy one?
<br><br>Erm. What? No, redundancy is striped across all available<br>partitions.<br><br>4x500 + 1 x 320, you could:<br>RAID 5: 5 x 320, effective 4x320 = 1280<br>RAID 5: 4 x 500, effective 3x500 = 1500<br>RAID 5: 5 x 250, effective 4x250 = 1000 +
<br> 4 x 250, effective 3x250 = 750 = 1750 in two filesystems<br><br>LVM, no redundancy: 4x500 + 250 = 2250 and also a 70 filesystem<br>left over.</blockquote>
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<div>but no backup for LVM right? So if a drive goes i loose it all?</div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell