[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

>> Well, you can take advantage of the fact that myth needs high capacity,
>> low speed. So get a sackful of 1 GB drives and build a few raid-6
>> arrays. I've found that about 3TB is the practical limit of the
>> technology for SATA in terms of verify and rebuild speeds. Maybe the
>> newer controllers are faster, but when time to rebuild starts to
>> exceed 48 hours I get a bit worried.
>

BTW, for a 9x 2TB drive linux software raid6 on a core2quad at work I
am getting ~8 hour rebuilds.

John