[mythtvnz] Intro/Background

[Neil Henwood]

My boss put me onto this, unRAID. http://www.lime-technology.com
I haven't got around to setting it up yet, but looks ideal for storage 
of media and the like with Myth. The good thing that I like about it is 
that if more than one drive goes belly up, you don't loose the whole 
set, just the disks that die. If one goes, or you need to upgrade, then 
just swap a disk. Easy.


Barry Clearwater wrote:
> If you are able to backup regularly, LVM has the upside of when you add
> storage its trivial to increase what you have, fwiw though I believe
> this works best with a raid configuration as a base, so RAID1 gives a
> mirrored drive and extra security over your data.  The number of hard
> drives I have replaced this year with totally unrecoverable contents
> (without a trip to a USA clean room ~US$4000) astounds me.
> 
> Barry
> 
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:08 +1200, Matt Poff wrote:
>> Hadley Rich wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:51:04 Matt Crampton wrote:
>>>   
>>>> At the moment, I bought another 320GB HDD to put in, but am debating
>>>> whether to do a clean install with Fiesty (Ubuntu 7.04) or keep what I've
>>>> got. Also wanting to setup LVM as well, so I can add more hard drives over
>>>> time, as the case can hold upto 6 and it's got enough SATA connections
>>>> onboard.
>>>>     
>>>   
>> I'm running on a fresh install of Feisty 7.04 and was convinced away 
>> from using LVM towards the storage groups approach by online docs. The 
>> reason was that if a HD fails it sounded far from trivial to replace it 
>> and maintain the LVM volume. Storage groups were more like a lizard's 
>> tail... just grow another one and resume :)
>>
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