[mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5

[James Booth]

On Monday 15 June 2009 14:46:07 Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:41 +1200, Jonathan Hoskin wrote:
> > Also, if you have a bit more money to burn, why not consider RAID-10
> > over RAID-5? RAID-5 comes from a time when disks were expensive and n
> > +1 redundancy was a lot cheaper than n+n. Nowadays n+n on desktop
> > drives is cheap enough, and software RAID-10 is going to be way faster
> > than RAID-5.
>
> One point is that you can easily add more disk to a RAID5, and it's fast
> enough for most things.
>
> Personally I use JFS mounted on RAID5, no LVM. Not for TV recordings
> though, they are just on a single partition as I don't care about them.
>
> Always remember, RAID is for uptime, backups are for data security.
>
> hads

Wise words, but backing up 3TB+ of DVD's starts to get onerous.... At least 
RAID gives me some security against disk failure (theft and fire are up to the 
gods)
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