[mythtv-users] Storage Questions. LVM, RAID, NFS

[chris at cpr.homelinux.net]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:06:33PM -0500, Dean Wilson wrote:
> As I understand it from these discussions, Raid5 requires 5 drives, 4
> of which will be used for storage?  (So 5 250GB drives would sum to
> 1TB of useable HD space?)

RAID 5 works with 3 or more drives.  I'm using 3x160Gb to get 320Gb 
of storage.  Using more drives results in less wasted space but 
increases the risk of a dual failure.  Most HOWTO type sites suggest 
that once you get to 6 or more drives you should use RAID 6 instead.