[mythtv-users] Install Mythbuntu with RAID 1 (Software)

[Tim Draper]

On 15 December 2011 02:08, Ziegaus Matthias <beaver4ever at gmx.de> wrote:
>> I expect he's talking about using software mirroring for his OS disk,
>> which would most easily be set up during installation.  Most seem to
>> discourage recording to ones OS disk.  Besides which, mirrors are fine
>> for recordings, if you're OK with the lack of space.  We tell people not
>> to bother striping or spanning multiple disks to make one large
>> partition to record to.
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> Well, the setup i have are 2 x  1 TB Hdd.
> And i wanted to mirror 1 to the other.
> So i would end up having the OS and the recordings on the same hdds.
> I would use different partitions if that does work with RAID.
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> After all if i get a third hdd for the os i might end up with an
> unfunctional system if the OS HDD  crashes.
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there is a leaning towards seperate physical drives for the OS (more
specifically, where the mythtv DB is) and recordings drive.
that said, i ran a single drive FE and BE machine without issues
though; 3 tuner system without issue.

raid wont be an issue, and the comments you see reguarding the use of
a RAID solution are either mis-informed or, as Raymond says, of no
benefit (raid0 or similar) to recordings.

i personally use mdadm for my raid1, although both the DB and
recording store is on single drives.
atleast with mdadm you have an option to control via SSH or webmin and
you will also get SMART data (the key feature i wanted) which you
would likely not get on a hardware-level raid solution.