[mythtv-users] Setting up a separate server to store recordings.

[C. R. Oldham]

On Oct 22, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Paul Kidwell wrote:

>
> I tried setting it up with various flavors of Linux with no success.
> RocketRaid says their board
> has linux drivers, but I failed in every attempt to get it running. RR
> tech support told me I had
> the wrong type hard drives. (i.e. they blew me off)

My recommendation is that you ditch hardware RAID and use Linux kernel  
RAID support.  It is very reliable and fast.  Consider the following:

1. What will you do if the RAID card goes bad?  You will likely lose  
your entire array.  Even if you replace the RAID card my experience  
has been if the new card is not identical in every way, it may not see  
the array on your disks.  Linux RAID doesn't have this problem.  If  
the machine that hosts your array keels over, you just have to attach  
your individual disks to any other Linux machine with a similar kernel  
revision and tell the MD system to assemble the array and you have  
access to your data again.

2. Storage is cheap, I recommend using RAID 10 instead of 5.  With  
RAID 10 you can lose 1 or possibly 2 disks and still have access to  
your data.  With RAID 5, you can only lose 1 disk.

--cro