[mythtv-users] A Myther can dream, right?
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Mon Aug 18 01:36:04 UTC 2014
On 8/17/2014 8:53 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
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> On 8/17/2014 8:07 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
>
> 8 x 6TB Red Drives for RAID 6 providing 36TB for Library
> http://www.wdc.com/en/__products/products.aspx?id=810&__utm_source=WD%20Red%__20redirect&utm_medium=__collateral&utm_content=en&utm___campaign=product#tab3
> <http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810&utm_source=WD%20Red%20redirect&utm_medium=collateral&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=product#tab3>
>
>
> No point to spending the extra on Red drives unless you're actually
> putting them in a hardware RAID array. Their only purpose is to
> abort data recovery measures early, before a hardware RAID array
> boots the drive for being unresponsive.
>
>
> Well doesn't he have them in a RAID 6 with a hardware RAID controller?
> It's in his specs.
"Leverage integrated RAID 0, 1, 1E, and 10 for redundancy and high
availability in environments where higher-end RAID is not needed"
So if he's doing RAID6, it's software RAID6.
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