[mythtv-users] Why did you pick MythTV VS the other PVRs?

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 28 August 2009 19:21:16 Paul Bender wrote:

> I mentioned to my wife that were we to use MythTV instead of TiVo, we
> could RAID the drives. As a result of RAID, a drive failure would not
> cause a loss of recordings. From that moment on, the household switched
> from TiVo to MythTV.

Don't think of RAID as way to protect the material, that's the job of backups. 
RAID is for minimizing downtime.

rm * will clobber the file, be it on a RAID array or a single drive.

RAID's still nice though.

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