[mythtv-users] advise/suggestions on how to set up my drives?

[James Oltman]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Mark <fairlane at springcom.com> wrote:

> Steven Adeff wrote:
>
>>
>> sorry, I should have been more specific. I already have the OS/SQL on
>> a seperate 7200rpm 40GB MB cache drive. What I'm trying to figure out
>> is the best way to set up the three 1.5TB drives to be used as a
>> media/recordings drive. all the recordings and DVDrips/ripped
>> music/etc will go on this, so I'm interested in what will give me the
>> best combination in speed for writing/reading for recordings (two
>> firewire tuners one clearQAM tuner) and of course size. Of course it
>> would be nice to have some level of redundancy for the media stuff
>> (dvd/music rips). So one option is obviously RAID 5 across the drives,
>> which if they decide they want more space they can always add more
>> drives to the array. This I know is good for redundancy and ok for
>> speed. But are there other options I should look at?
>>
>>
>>
> If you have spent, or will spend considerable time ripping your media to
> the drives, may I suggest RAID / LVM?
>
> It's nice to access one big virtual drive but have everything in Raid 5 for
> reliability.
>


Agreed on RAID.  However, I suggest RAID 6.  Much more reliable, but you'll
need another drive.
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