[mythtv-users] RAID 1 - friend or foe?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Kevin Kuphal writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Would using two modern SCSI hard drives, hanging off an Adaptec 
>> controller, in a RAID-1 configuration, help or hinder video 
>> recording/playback, versus using a single disk only.
> Hardware RAID one should incur no or very very little performance hit on 
> writes since data is written to both disks simultaneously and could 
> improve read performance by reading sectors from either disk as needed.

I should've clarified -- I was referring to Linux softraid.


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