<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:20, Joe Votour wrote:<br>> --- Steve Adeff <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">
adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I'm in need of setting up RAID for my recordings<br>> > drive since now I'm able to<br>> > capture 2 HD + 1SD at a time, plus want to be able<br>> > to do commercial flagging,
<br>> > and for the time being, playback at least 1 HD<br>> > stream.<br>> ><br>> > I ordered 2 new harddrives which, while different<br>> > than my current recordings<br>> > drive are the same size, so if needed I can use all
<br>> > three.<br>> ><br>> > My question is, would it be better to use the<br>> > onboard RAID controller on my<br>> > motherboard or the software RAID linux has?<br>> ><br>> > I plan on doing a RAID0 since I'm not too worried
<br>> > about loosing my data, but<br>> > more worried about overall speed. I plan on backing<br>> > up any recordings I want<br>> > to save to another drive (which hopefully will be a<br>> > RAID5 as my next drive
<br>> > project).<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for the help!<br>> > --<br>> > Steve<br>> ><br>> > > _______________________________________________<br>> ><br>> > mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>><br>> It really depends on the controller itself.<br>><br>> Most of the controllers included on motherboards<br>> nowadays are just software-based controllers anyway,<br>> so you'd be using CPU horsepower to control them.
<br>><br>> I did some research into this when my employer was<br>> looking to rebuild a server - he wanted to go SATA<br>> hardware RAID, so we now have a nice expensive 3ware<br>> card.<br>><br>> Here's a page with some information about SATA RAID,
<br>> with cards listed by hardware RAID or software RAID<br>> (aka fakeraid):<br>> <a href="http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html">http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html</a><br>><br>> -- Joe<br>
<br>I have nvRaid, so I guess I'm better off using the linux "md" raid.<br>So are these SATA ports useless to me? could I still use them and just use<br>"md" for the actual RAID stuff?<br><br>--<br>thanks,
<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, that's exactly what I do. 4 SATA 250's in a RAID 5 config using mdadm.