[mythtv-users] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

[Nick Morrott]

On 27/10/2008, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:

> How many drives would one have for it to make sense to go RAID? I have a
> 320gb sata, so if I grabbed a 1TB would that make sense to go RAID?

It's more a question of how much available storage space you need and
which RAID level are you going to run, and _then_ determining how many
drives that requires.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID for a good background.

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Nick Morrott

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