[mythtv-users] Recovering dead database + new RAID advice

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Dave Cunningham <ml at upsilon.org.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks for that - this is something I had never even consider and after
> googling a bit it seems you are absolute correct about RAID-5

That is one of the reasons that raid-6 (aka raidz2) became popular,
along with background scrubbing, and hot spare fast rebuild,
especially in the enterprise space.  And, even two parity drives
are not always enough as drives get bigger and bigger (and the
reconstruct time goes up and up).