[mythtv-users] drive configuration dilemmna

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/29/2011 00:59, sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
> Although the most I can perceive being used in our house is about 4 streams with
> up to 2 of those being HD.. (1080i MPEG in Australia)... Surprisingly my 4 disc
> RAID 5 does seem to handle about that amount of recording (highly tuned xfs
> filesystems that defrag nightly)..

You do realize that the largest single recording you will ever see is 
2-3MB/s, right?  Those four recordings are using no more than 10MB/s.  
Surely you don't need a RAID array to manage that throughput.