On Apr 6, 2005 3:51 PM, Robert Kulagowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do mean software raid (md). Reading the archives I've come to understand > > that hardware (real or fake) raid 5 is a waste of time for most mythtv > > applications. > > My personal opinion is that RAID5 _is_ useful, if you consider the > tradeoff of money vs. time. How long would it take you to re-encode 200 > DVD's or 500 CD's? While not everyone has such a large library of > content, not having to recreate it in case of a disk failure is a big > win for me. > > So, it's really a matter of personal choice. At some point, if you have > enough "stuff", RAID looks more attractive. Because one day your hard > drive _will_ stop working!
but it's not that useful if the raid 5 volume/partition can't grow. how do you grow your raid 5? -- Milan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
