[mythtv-users] Hard Drive reliability esp. RAID issues

Travis Tabbal travis at tabbal.net
Tue Mar 9 15:41:18 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:52 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Do you need better performance? A 14 drive linux software array of 1TB
> >> drives should net you at minimum 500MB/s writes with 600 to 800 MB/s
> >> reads.
> >
> >
> > Guess there is something seriously wrong with mine then... I have a 14
> drive
> > array with 500GB drives, software RAID, and I am lucky to get 120 MB/s
> > (measured using dd). Do you have any tips/suggestions on how to speed it
> up?
>
> Are all drives on the pci-e based sata controllers? What CPU?
>


And what type of RAID? 5/6 are slower than 10 would be, for example.
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