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Hi Dave, Perhaps you might like to look at RAID 1 Mirroring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks Steph 2008/11/27 Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > Just wanted to garner people's opinion on whether or not to use RAID for my > Media Server. > > Basically I am not interested in Data Redundancy, Hot-Swapping etc - If the > machine goes down then I will restore from a regular backup and if that > takes a couple of days then so be it. > > What I am interested in though is fast I/O Throughput for Reading Data > because I want my Media Streaming (Music, Video etc) to be as fast as > possible and I am not sure whether it would be better to remain with a > normal Drive (probably SATA?) or to use RAID. > > My thinking behind this is that with certain modes of RAID you can have the > Data Striped across different disks and was wondering whether that would > offer any advantage during reading of data - Note either RAID or not I'm not > too bothered about Write Speed since most of the stuff will be encoded once > and simply stored (except obviously for TV Recording). > > Thanks in advance for your views. > > Regards, > Dave. > -- > 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 > > -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/S d- s+:+ a+ C+++ U+++ P L++ E W++ N+ K- w--$ O— M- V— L++++>$ PS+++ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5+++ X- R+ tv- b DI++ D++ G e* h+ r++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- 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