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John Drescher wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Mark Hutchinson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@onnow.net"><mark@onnow.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have read a bunch of docs, but wanted to get some feedback or
reports of results.
HD system. firewire capture etc.... 3ghz Core2Duo, 5 sata ports.
I have 5-500gig sata drives for storage.
LVM would work, but provide no RAID. RAID 5 is too slow from what I
have read.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->With a modern CPU write speeds are > single disk speed but things slow
down when you have a lot of thrashing. Read speeds are nearly RAID 0
for N-1 disks. I get 266MB/s hdparm reads on a 6 drive software raid 6
(AM2 Althlon 3000 single core + 2GB PC6400 DDR2 + 6 X 320 Segate
7200.10) and 90MB/s writes.
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Raid 6 sounds like an overkill for a myth setup. I would use RAID5 in
your case. The chances of loosing 2 drives at the same time are pretty
low. And usually the lost of 2 drives are usually caused by something
else (motherboard or sata controller going bad) in which case there
isn't much RAID can do against that. RAID5 is pretty fast. Like John
mentionned it's almost like having a RAID0 with 4 disk except, you'll
have distributed parity across 5 disks.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> I was thinking of also cutting up recordings ( dont mind losing ) and
videos ( need some redundancy or backup )
Thoughts, recommendations?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I would use storage groups and mytharchive for the stuff you want to backup.
John
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