On 01/25/2006 10:22 AM, Kerry Wilson wrote: > Les Gondor wrote: > >> Ryan Kremser wrote: >> >>> What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning drives. I >>> have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm >>> considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive where >>> i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive. >>> Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity? >>> >> There is the increase in reliability, as well. Separating the root and video >> partitions onto >> different spindles means that if one drive fails, you still have the data on >> the other. Granted that >> you might not be able to recover the video simply because of the size, but >> you still have the >> mythconverg data (and you might even have that if the root disk fails if you >> have been dumping it >> onto the video partition). Adding a drive removes eggs from the one basket >> you have them in right now. > Yes, but you double your chances that a drive will fail... > And halve the severity of the losses due to failure... ;)
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