<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fairlane@springcom.com">fairlane@springcom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Steven Adeff wrote:<br>
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sorry, I should have been more specific. I already have the OS/SQL on<br>
a seperate 7200rpm 40GB MB cache drive. What I'm trying to figure out<br>
is the best way to set up the three 1.5TB drives to be used as a<br>
media/recordings drive. all the recordings and DVDrips/ripped<br>
music/etc will go on this, so I'm interested in what will give me the<br>
best combination in speed for writing/reading for recordings (two<br>
firewire tuners one clearQAM tuner) and of course size. Of course it<br>
would be nice to have some level of redundancy for the media stuff<br>
(dvd/music rips). So one option is obviously RAID 5 across the drives,<br>
which if they decide they want more space they can always add more<br>
drives to the array. This I know is good for redundancy and ok for<br>
speed. But are there other options I should look at?<br>
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If you have spent, or will spend considerable time ripping your media to the drives, may I suggest RAID / LVM?<br>
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It's nice to access one big virtual drive but have everything in Raid 5 for reliability.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Agreed on RAID. However, I suggest RAID 6. Much more reliable, but you'll need another drive.<br>