[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[John Drescher]

>  Too slow for what? Just mythtv? What are you planning on doing? On my
>  system, even with a single SATA drive I've been able to simultaneously
>  record 3 SD programs + 2 HD programs, run a single commflag, and
>  playback a single HD program. Never tried pushing it any harder than
>  that.  I don't think RAID5 would be much of a problem unless you are
>  going to be pushing the system VERY hard.
>
I think the big problem is without tuning MythTV and ext3 want to
write to the array in too small of chunks too frequenty causing
thrashing. As  I said before raid5/raid6 are bad when they thrash.

John