[mythtv-users] Software RAID5 faster than RAID10?

[Gordon McCrae]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 14:02:49 Raymond Wagner wrote:
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>> Ben Curtis wrote:
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>> Of course this is all moot for storing recordings.  One independent disk
>> for each tuner that could be recording simultaneously is the ideal setup.
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> Of course that depends on what you mean by "ideal". As long as your storage 
> system can handle the maximum possible demand if all your tuners are 
> recording, there is really no need to go beyond that. You also have to 
> consider playing back multiple files, if your system allows that.
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> What you describe would provide no redundancy, and would be wasteful of power 
> and space.
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> I don't think there is any "one size fits all" storage solution, a major 
> factor is how important is television to you, personally if I lost all my 
> stored video it wouldn't be a big deal, just an excuse to build a bigger, 
> better box.
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> Anything I really want to save I archive off to DVD or tape anyway. Every 
> drive ever made will fail eventually.
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I'm currently recording from 5 USB  DVB-T tuners to a single 1Tb HDD. In
addition, up to five frontends pulling video off at the same time.

Never seen any problems, don't expect to.

I suspect all the talk about "ideal" scenarios is a case of classic over
engineering of the problem.

Cheers
Gordon