[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 19:38:24 UTC 2014


On 1/21/14, 2:26 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/21/2014 11:57 AM, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>> Didn't like their choice of RAID controller though, I've tended to
>> prefer hardware RAID or let Linux do the RAID, as some software RAID
>> controllers have significant overhead issues.
>
> It was my understanding their "storage pods" contained three rows of
> fifteen drives each, running 5:1 port multiplier backplanes into dumb
> controller cards, and each row was a 13+2 LVM RAID6 formatted using JFS.
> _______________________________________________
The appendix shows software RAID cards being used. So, they're not quite
dumb controller cards, only stupid controller cards.
I'm of the philosophy of letting the hardware do the work.


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list