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Re: [LUG] OT:To Raid or Not Raid (That is the Question)

 

Dave wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wanted to garner people's opinion on whether or not to use RAID for my Media 
> Server.

I would always use RAID.  The pita of fixing things is always worth the
cost of the additional disk for me.

If you were streaming to lots of clients concurrently over a gigabit
network, RAID1 (or RAID0 if you don't care for redundancy) might buy you
something.  If you allow, say, 20MB/min for a single video stream (seems
reasonable based on the TV recordings I have at the moment), I think a
single decent SATA disk would provide ample throughput for home use.

James

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