[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

Kevin Bailey ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org
Fri Feb 15 00:59:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:12:55PM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> 
> If you use storage groups each drive is independent so no increased
> risk of down time. I assume that was what Lan Barnes was talking about
> with his post.

When a mounted drive (used for a storage group) goes down,
your box is dead. At least, you can't record any of those
shows until you replace the drive. (Linux may freak out in
other ways too, I don't know.)

When one drive in a RAID array dies, angels may cry but
nobody on earth even notices.


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