[mythtv-users] HELP! I want my mythtv!

[Joseph DeGraw]

On 04/13/2014 10:36 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you really need 4Tb for recordings?
> Who could manage with "only" 4TB ? I've just added a second 3TB drive to my system. It's all time-shift - just that I'm struggling to find time to watch stuff as fact is it's recorded.
>
>> You could consider putting them
>> in raid1. That way a drive failure won't cost you your data. With
>> raid1 reading is faster since it is spread over the two drives.
> RAID1 (mirrored) is no faster at writing than the slowest disk in the array, and reading might not be any faster - it's very application dependent and in some cases the array can be slower than single drives. For Myth, unless you want the redundancy, then raid is not beneficial.
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Good point. Since Im starting over with my storage I can make the 
changes to just two single drives. I have today (sunday) to do this as 
my wifes shows start up again on Monday.

I laugh so hard over her love affair with Mythtv. She keeps telling me 
that she doesnt know what she would do without it. Its pretty common for 
all 4 tuners to be recording at the same time multiple times a day!

Joseph