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

[Michael Papet]

>Sounds like RAID is just too hard to get working (from
>a HW perspective) and judging by no recommendations, yet, as to suitable
>drives (meeting my requirements), that confirms it.

Debian's installer has a painless method of creating a software RAID1.  Mythtv packages are available at debian-multimedia.org  RAID1 is not backup.  But, between some kind of RAID, ext3, smartd and logwatch it's your own complete lack of follow-through if you lose a partition.  I mean it!  It doesn't get any easier than that.

What kind of awful 1U does NOT ship with a hardware RAID and better disks? If there is such a 1U, you did this to yourself.  If you are so committed to racked hardware, then stop messing around and get a Compaq DL380 3U.

This thread has gone on too long.