[mythtv-users] OT -- Raid Card

[Steve Hodge]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:47 AM, James Oltman <cnlibmyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just be sure to get good quality hardware/cables.  I'm currently suffering
> through an array loss due to either faulty PCI cards, cables, or possibly a
> bad drive/s.  I had a drive go out in my RAID 5 and sent it to Seagate for
> an RMA.  They took their sweet time getting one back to me.  The very same
> day the replacement arrived, the array took another dump.  I wasn't able to
> get it to resync.


That is the danger of RAID5. It degrades to RAID0 so you are really
vulnerable until it has resync'd with the new drive. If you don't have a way
of backing up your array I'd recommend against RAID5 - go with RAID6 or
RAID10 instead.

Cheers,
Steve
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