[mythtv-users] warning for anyone with western digital green drives

PJR pjrobinson at metronet.co.uk
Fri Feb 10 23:08:20 UTC 2012



I want to hold all myth recorded data on RAID1, agree TV is not so
important but music and videos are.


On 10/02/12 19:09, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 10:53 PM, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 04:15:54AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>> I guess I will observe over time a bit longer.  I'd love to get down
>>> into the single digits of seconds as you have done.  Given that I've
>>> already put mysql's "tmpdir" on tmpfs I might be at that CPU bound point
>>> given that I do only have a Celeron @ 2.4GHz.
>> I know this is an old thread, but I had 6, 750G drives in a raid5 linux
>> software array since March of 2010. Just had 2 of the 6 completely fail,
>> thank God I had one of them marked as a hot spare. I'll be passing over
>> any of their green drives from now on.
>>
>> The array held recordings only, mysql data and the root file system was
>> on another, separate drive.
>>
> FWIW, I hold my root file system and database on a RAID1 set (2 active 
> drives + 1 spare), but my recordings are stored on regular drives 
> without any redundancy. It's only TV after all.
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