[mythtv-users] Software RAID5 faster than RAID10?
Gordon McCrae
gordon.mccrae at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 13 22:05:21 UTC 2009
Brian Wood wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 14:02:49 Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
>> Ben Curtis wrote:
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>>> <snip>
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>
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>> Of course this is all moot for storing recordings. One independent disk
>> for each tuner that could be recording simultaneously is the ideal setup.
>>
>
> Of course that depends on what you mean by "ideal". As long as your storage
> system can handle the maximum possible demand if all your tuners are
> recording, there is really no need to go beyond that. You also have to
> consider playing back multiple files, if your system allows that.
>
> What you describe would provide no redundancy, and would be wasteful of power
> and space.
>
> I don't think there is any "one size fits all" storage solution, a major
> factor is how important is television to you, personally if I lost all my
> stored video it wouldn't be a big deal, just an excuse to build a bigger,
> better box.
>
> Anything I really want to save I archive off to DVD or tape anyway. Every
> drive ever made will fail eventually.
>
>
I'm currently recording from 5 USB DVB-T tuners to a single 1Tb HDD. In
addition, up to five frontends pulling video off at the same time.
Never seen any problems, don't expect to.
I suspect all the talk about "ideal" scenarios is a case of classic over
engineering of the problem.
Cheers
Gordon
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