<br><br>On Wednesday, 18 July 2012, Toby Mills wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>>All storage will die eventually. Thats why you backup the stuff you can't replace,<br>
</div><div><br></div>I would avoid raid for mythtv, its just not necessary and can result in file fragmentation.<div>
I run 5 x 130Gb drives mounted as separate storage groups. That means I can record 5 programs at once and each is written to a different spindle.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Great so, should a drive fail, you lost all content of that drive. Things that wouldn't happen with raid.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thousands of users using raid with myth with no problem whatsoever.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>This means the files never get fragmented and the performance is out of this world.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> <span style>This thread keeps getting better and better in accumulation of nonsense.</span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>You can pick up an old DELL server on trademe for a couple of hundred bucks and build the ultimate mythbackend.</div><div>I am running VMWare on mine, so I can also experiment with a non production version of Myth on the same physical box or other virtual appliances.</div>
<br></div><div>Also, if I have a HD failure, I would only lose 1/5th of my recordings, not really the end of the world given anything important can be downloaded easily.</div><div>This configuration gives far superior performance for mythtv than any RAID setup ever will and provides adequate redundancy.<br>
it also means if anything goes down, I just slot in a new disk, mount it and I'm away again in 10 minutes, far quicker than rebuilding RAID arrays.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>According to whom? Your self written fact books?</div>
<div>Rebuilding an array doesn't mean it will be offline during that time.. </div><div><br></div><div>As for providing superior performance, I'm not sure where you got that "fact" from but it couldn't be further from the truth.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My RAID5 array, made of 5*2TB green drives gives me over 250MB/s of write speed for a single file, the maximum speed you will ever get from a single drive is about 80MB/s with your typical drive.<span></span></div>