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

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

>>> kwilson at wmsco.com 01/25/06 10:22 AM >>>
> Les Gondor wrote:
>> 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?
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>>   
>Yes, but you double your chances that a drive will fail...
>
>Just a thought

Following on that thought...you'll then be half a likely to lose any
one of the partitions of data.  ;-)

Paul