[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[John Winters]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:25:03 +0100, Justin Perreault
<justinperreault at dl-jp.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've started searching the net to get a better understanding about raid
> 5/5+0 and the hit I can expect on performance.
> 
> I might be barking up the wrong tree and if so please point me in a more
> useful direction.
> 
> The purpose of my searching is to sort out my myth-tv needs. I am
> currently thinking that I would like to have 20 x 1TB SATA drives in a
> raid 5+0 configuration for my backend server

You must be a really serious TV watcher!  I've run various MythTV
installations with anything up to 300G of HDD space, and never felt
cramped.  Or is this for some sort of professional purpose?

John
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