[mythtv-users] thoughts about 2 drives 1 video storage 1 system + other

Les Gondor les at totalgraphix.ca
Wed Jan 25 15:02:46 UTC 2006


Ryan Kremser wrote:
> What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning drives.  I 
> have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm 
> considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive where 
> i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive.  
> Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity?
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There is the increase in reliability, as well. Separating the root and video partitions onto 
different spindles means that if one drive fails, you still have the data on the other. Granted that 
you might not be able to recover the video simply because of the size, but you still have the 
mythconverg data (and you might even have that if the root disk fails if you have been dumping it 
onto the video partition). Adding a drive removes eggs from the one basket you have them in right now.

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