[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 17:57:53 UTC 2008


>  From my experience, with Linux, software raid is a lot better than hardware
> raid.
>
It depends on tuning. HW raid with a decent sized write cache (turned
on) will suffer less from thrashing than software raid using the
default cache sizes. I mentioned turned on, because a lot of cards
default to turn off the cache unless you have purchased $150
battery...

John


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