[mythtv-users] Pixelation/Bad Recordings HDHR Prime -- I am at my wits end

[Karl Newman]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 9/26/2013 4:14 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>
>> On 9/26/13 3:24 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/26/2013 3:01 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/26/13 2:53 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 9/26/2013 12:52 PM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I got snookered a few years back into purchasing a fakeraid
>>>>>> card (was sold as a real RAID, but it's software RAID).
>>>>>>
>>>>> There's a quick and infallible way to check.  If the card comes with a
>>>>> big chunk of soldered memory, or better yet a DIMM slot, it's real
>>>>> RAID.
>>>>>
>>>> A bit further OT, any recommendations on a good RAID card for my next
>>>> build?
>>>>
>>> My last upgrade was an LSI 9201-16i and ZFS.  So far, so good... On
>>> that note, I've got an old ARC-1230 lying around if you're interested.
>>>
>> When I get the spare bucks, I'll keep you in mind. With that and the
>> drives I have on hand, as well as a server case with hot plug drive
>> slots, it'd be all that I need (save another mobo) to toss another four
>> terabytes onto the network here.
>>
>
> The bigger "takeaway" from that was that I was suggesting, as Eric Sharkey
> did, to just find a nice disk controller and do software RAID, not buy my
> used 7yr old RAID card.  After all, hardware RAID is ultimately nothing
> more than software RAID running on a little embedded computer built into a
> PCIe card.
>

But with proprietary a format meaning your array may not be portable to a
new controller should it fail... That was the strongest reason for me to
choose the well-supported mdadm soft RAID.

Karl
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