[mythtv-users] Fastest RAID for HD?

[John Drescher]

> RAID operates at the block level below your filesystems and has
> absolutely no concept of a file. Read speeds will depend on how the data
> is physically arranged on the array members, but the number of files
> involved will mainly affect it by creating more device contention (which
> happens no matter what kind of storage you use).
>
You are correct about that. I should have been more specific. The only
way to achieve this read speed with raid10 would be to read N
different blocks/chunks at a time. Although this sounds very simple it
is more difficult in practice.

John