[mythtv-users] Should I use LVM on this new raid?

[Michael Heironimus]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:02:01PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> 
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 3:53 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> >> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:39:46 -0400
> >> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> >
> >> So that implies to me that people really believe that business will
> >> *pay* a 6:1 or more price imbalance for those drives, for no good
> >> reason.
> 
> > It's just another manifestation of the old pre-MS saw that went,
> > "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM."  Regardless of how much
> > more expensive it was.
> 
> It's also possible people are paying to get a longer warranty.  Given  
> the same overall failure rate, if a company charges more for a  
> product it can afford to absorb the cost of more warranty returns.

A longer (as long as you want it) warranty is nice, but the 4H
replacement time is even nicer.

-- 
Michael Heironimus