[mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

[Dan Christensen]

John Andersen <jsa at video.homelinux.org> writes:

> Raid 5 runs quite a bit slower when its degraded (missing drives).

I hadn't heard this.  Any idea why this is the case?  I would
understand that you don't get the speed boost during reading from the
extra drive, but I would have guessed that it would give higher read
throughput than a single drive.

Dan