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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:42:27 Johan Schuld wrote:<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hi All,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">A while back the HD on my mythbox died and had to replace it with an old 250Gig ATA drive I had lying around. Not the best option with HD recordings etc.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">So, as HD will inevitably die, my plan is to buy some new HD's and put them in a RAID array. Thinking RAID1 as I currently don't have the funds to buy more than 2 drives. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I've done quite some research so far about the options and wondered what the easiest and most reliable solution. I.e. I know people having a HW Raid using a Dell Perc 5/i card. These are so common they can be picked up for less than $100NZ inc shipping from ebay and with some SAS to SATA cables they run fine with SATA drives. A cheaper option would obviously be SW Raid, but not that much cheaper. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Regardless of SW or HW, I'm thinking of 2x 2TB drives, in Raid1. I've been looking at the WD Green ones as they are competitively priced and silent (pc is under the TV). That drive has been discussed many times here so I am aware that they might have issues in SW raid, I'm just still looking at a similar drive from another vendor. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">As Raid1 is really not that much overhead, should I just not bother with HW raid, and let linux do the job? (Opensuse 12.1) . Can I transfer a already existing non-raid install to a SW raid1 config? For now I'll run the OS and media storage on one raid volume, I might split that out later when I can afford some more drives. </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I can find quite some info about Raid, but not so much in combination with Myth.. don't want to do stuff that's overkill, but like to have stuff that works (particulary when one drive fails ;) </p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Cheers</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">J.</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br /><br />I run 2 x RAID1 (4 disks total) using software RAID. System disk is separate again. I recently had my first disk failure, it was a low-level interface failure and system would not even boot with the disk connected. Just disconnected the faulty disk and was back into business with the mirror. While I waited for my warranty replacement disk I did an upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04 and myth 0.25. When the disk arrived I just threw it in, added it to the array, and away we went. Definitely worth doing RAID, but I should probably have gone for RAID5 as it would be much easier to add capacity.</p></body></html>