Les Gondor wrote: > Ryan Kremser wrote: > >> What is everyones thoughts when it comes down to partitioning drives. I >> have a 200 gig hd right now but am looking to reformat and i'm >> considering putting the video storage only on the 200 gig drive where >> i'll then put the system and tv buffer on a second 20~30 gig drive. >> Anyone see any benifits other than the increase in capacity? >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mythtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >> > > There is the increase in reliability, as well. Separating the root and video > partitions onto > different spindles means that if one drive fails, you still have the data on > the other. Granted that > you might not be able to recover the video simply because of the size, but > you still have the > mythconverg data (and you might even have that if the root disk fails if you > have been dumping it > onto the video partition). Adding a drive removes eggs from the one basket > you have them in right now. > > Yes, but you double your chances that a drive will fail...
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