[mythtv-users] thoughts about 2 drives 1 video storage 1 system + other

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/25/2006 10:22 AM, Kerry Wilson wrote:
> Les Gondor wrote:
>   
>> Ryan Kremser wrote:
>>     
>>> What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning drives.  I 
>>> have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm 
>>> considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive where 
>>> i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive.  
>>> Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity?
>>>       
>> There is the increase in reliability, as well. Separating the root and video partitions onto 
>> different spindles means that if one drive fails, you still have the data on the other. Granted that 
>> you might not be able to recover the video simply because of the size, but you still have the 
>> mythconverg data (and you might even have that if the root disk fails if you have been dumping it 
>> onto the video partition). Adding a drive removes eggs from the one basket you have them in right now.
> Yes, but you double your chances that a drive will fail...
>   
And halve the severity of the losses due to failure...  ;)

Mike