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

[David Brodbeck]

On Fri, October 24, 2008 5:01 pm, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> The only reason I went with raid5 again is because I really didn't want to
> loose 640G more of space to redundancy. I just hope it doesn't bite me in
> the butt later.

You'll probably be fine.  But I really recommend running a hot spare in
RAID 5 arrays, to minimize the amount of time between a disk failing and
recovery starting.