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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html