[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

Criggie criggie at criggie.dyndns.org
Mon Jun 15 09:30:23 BST 2009


Umm... read it again.  If you use a raid5 you will lose one disk worth of
storage space.

Four  1TB drives in a raid5 is 3TB.
Four  1TB drives in storage groups is 4TB.


Karl Leaning wrote:
> Umm, no with raid 5, you lose a drive not the data. add a new drive
> "rebuild" the set and continue as normal...

> Criggie wrote:
>> If you raid5, then you lose a drive worth of storage, and remember its
>> only TV.  Not your critical personal data.

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