[mythtv-users] A Myther can dream, right?

[Ian Evans]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
Ahh...didn't skip over to the card's spec...just saw that he had a raid
controller listed.
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