>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/25/06 10:22 AM >>> > 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? >>> >> 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... > >Just a thought
Following on that thought...you'll then be half a likely to lose any one of the partitions of data. ;-) Paul _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
