[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:
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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