[mythtvnz] Intro/Background

Steve Hodge mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:38:08 +1200


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On 7/28/07, Criggie <criggie@criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> Neil Henwood wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Looks like a RAID 5 in a box... nothing stunningly flash there.  The
> ability to use different size drives is nice - I don't know how they've
> acheived that...


It's not RAID 5 if a simultaneous multiple disk failure results in only
losing the contents of those disks. Lost more than one disk in a RAID 5
setup and all your data is gone.

Steve

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On 7/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Criggie</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org">criggie@criggie.dyndns.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Neil Henwood wrote:<br>&gt; My boss put me onto this, unRAID. <a href="http://www.lime-technology.com">http://www.lime-technology.com</a><br>&gt; I haven&#39;t got around to setting it up yet, but looks ideal for storage<br>
&gt; of media and the like with Myth. The good thing that I like about it is<br>&gt; that if more than one drive goes belly up, you don&#39;t loose the whole<br>&gt; set, just the disks that die. If one goes, or you need to upgrade, then
<br>&gt; just swap a disk. Easy.<br><br>Looks like a RAID 5 in a box... nothing stunningly flash there.&nbsp;&nbsp;The<br>ability to use different size drives is nice - I don&#39;t know how they&#39;ve<br>acheived that...</blockquote>
<div><br>It&#39;s not RAID 5 if a simultaneous multiple disk failure results in only losing the contents of those disks. Lost more than one disk in a RAID 5 setup and all your data is gone.<br></div><br></div>Steve<br><br>

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