[mythtv-users] Contemplating a major change

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 6 April 2014 05:46, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
> The RAID volume is 4 2tb drives in a RAID1+0.
>

how safe do you want your recordings collection, and you don't need
much IOPS for mythtv's recording either .
So RAID10 is definitely massive waste of space, 50%
Go RAID5, 25% waste only with 4 disks

250GB for /var is still in my opinion a total waste of space,
resources and money.

The /var of my production system is 10GB, and that's because I have
7GB in a /var/wwww.
/var/lib is 1.6GB, for a mythtv database that hold 7TB of recordings
over 6 years...

If you're afraid of your log files going like crazy, then create a
partition for /var/log ; don't need another disk for that.