[mythtv-users] Where are those new 1TB drives?

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 05:23:30PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> RAID5 is a good compromise between redundancy and capacity. It does  
> have a bit more overhead than RAID0 or RAID1 but that's really not a  
> problem with any machine made in the last decade. You need a minimum  
> of 3 same-size drives (or at least same-size partitions), so with the  
> drives you describe you would use both 250s and a 250GB partition on  
> the 350 for a total of 500GB storage. That leaves some left on the  
> 350 for an operating system, swap, and possibly a boot partition.

Myth users generally like RAID 5 because:

- it's relatively cheap. You lose the capacity of 1 drive in N,
  usually 1/4 or 1/5.

- the data is not very expensive (record another showing)

- the data is not very expensive (rip it off the DVD again)

- the data is not very expensive (no one is paying you to do
  this)

For many applications, though, RAID 5 is a bad idea.

http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/

-dsr-

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