[mythtv-users] Question on software RAID

[Peter Loron]

Dave Alden wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> 
>>Why use Raid-5? Myth doesn't really need the I/O bandwidth
>>you get from striping and you said its software Raid so you're
>>going to up the CPU load. Instead you could just use the LVM
>>to create a large volume set which is easier to extend.
> 
> 
> (I'm not the original author, but I wanted to respond with why I'm
> using RAID-5 :-).
> 
> I'm using RAID-5 so I have some failure protection.  :-)  I have
> ripped my DVD collection (currently ~150) and have a rather large
> collection of shows/movies/cd's from myth all stored on one large
> partition.  With RAID-5, I can affrord to lose 1 drive and not
> have to get divorced (I don't think my wife would stay with me
> through the reripping process :-).
> 
> ...dave

Bingo! I've already got > 150GB of media stored and I don't have a PVR 
yet. I have the critical stuff backed up on DVD, but I don't want to 
have to manage a big library of discs...that's why I ripped my CDs in 
the first place!

-Pete