On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:30, Michael Haan wrote: > On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:20, Joe Votour wrote: > > > --- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm in need of setting up RAID for my recordings > > > > drive since now I'm able to > > > > capture 2 HD + 1SD at a time, plus want to be able > > > > to do commercial flagging, > > > > and for the time being, playback at least 1 HD > > > > stream. > > > > > > > > I ordered 2 new harddrives which, while different > > > > than my current recordings > > > > drive are the same size, so if needed I can use all > > > > three. > > > > > > > > My question is, would it be better to use the > > > > onboard RAID controller on my > > > > motherboard or the software RAID linux has? > > > > > > > > I plan on doing a RAID0 since I'm not too worried > > > > about loosing my data, but > > > > more worried about overall speed. I plan on backing > > > > up any recordings I want > > > > to save to another drive (which hopefully will be a > > > > RAID5 as my next drive > > > > project). > > > > > > > > Thanks for the help! > > > > -- > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > mythtv-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > It really depends on the controller itself. > > > > > > Most of the controllers included on motherboards > > > nowadays are just software-based controllers anyway, > > > so you'd be using CPU horsepower to control them. > > > > > > I did some research into this when my employer was > > > looking to rebuild a server - he wanted to go SATA > > > hardware RAID, so we now have a nice expensive 3ware > > > card. > > > > > > Here's a page with some information about SATA RAID, > > > with cards listed by hardware RAID or software RAID > > > (aka fakeraid): > > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html > > > > > > -- Joe > > > > I have nvRaid, so I guess I'm better off using the linux "md" raid. > > So are these SATA ports useless to me? could I still use them and just > > use "md" for the actual RAID stuff? > > > > Yes, that's exactly what I do. 4 SATA 250's in a RAID 5 config using > mdadm.
So you use the raid controller but use mdadm to handle the RAID array? thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
