[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[Emery Guevremont]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 7:25 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>   
>> As  I said before raid5/raid6 are bad when they thrash.
>>     
>
> Definitely true.  The extent of this can be pretty shocking.  I've  
> seen hardware RAID 5 arrays slow from megabytes per second when  
> writing large files to a few dozen kilobytes per second when writing a  
> bunch of small ones.  I don't know if this would be a problem for  
> Myth, though; Myth files tend to be large.
>
>   
 From my experience, with Linux, software raid is a lot better than 
hardware raid.
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