[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[Steve Hodge]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Kevin Bailey <ke-myth at retriever.dyndns.org>
wrote:

> 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.)
>

That might be true of IDE drives or particular controllers, but it's not
true generally. SCSI and SATA controllers often handle drive failures pretty
gracefully.

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

If it's RAID 0 you'll notice. Again, you're generalising.

Cheers,
Steve
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