[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[Steve Hodge]

On Feb 16, 2008 6:07 PM, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:

> > .... software raid is a lot better than hardware raid.
>
> As other posters have responded, as a generalization, that's simply a
> false statement. There's a reason that most, if not all, high-end
> servers use hardware raid. Speed, reliability, performance, all are
> improvements over software raid, and in some cases monsterous
> improvements.
>

But there is a vast difference between server class HW RAID and consumer
class HW RAID. IMHO, software RAID is usually a better option then consumer
class HW RAID because of it's flexibility, because the performance penalty
is small (if any), and because it's free.

Cheers,
Steve
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