[mythtv-users] recommendations for building new FE/BE HDTV system?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Sun Apr 5 18:31:19 UTC 2009


Tyler T wrote:
> That's basically what I've done with some old PATA drives. 16GB Raid-1
> for the OS, then a second partition on the first drive for NAS --
> which is backed up nightly to a sister partition on the second disk
> (because Raid-1 is NOT a backup!). Then the rest of each drive is
> Raid-0 for recordings. Works great, although you do take a small hit
> on the extra power consumption.

Why are you using RAID 0 instead of Storage Groups?  (This isn't a 
criticism, I'm genuinely curious.)  I would think Storage Groups would 
be a bit more reliable -- losing one drive would take out half your 
recordings, instead of all of them.



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