[mythtv-users] Anyone using SSD for long term storage?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 07/22/14 17:07, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 22/07/14 21:01, David Madsen wrote:
>> Personally, I think SSDs are overkill for recording storage.  The cost/GB
>> ratio is still orders of magnitude higher than HDDs, and the benefits you
>> get from a SSD (fast random access) don't really match what you need for
>> recordings (decent sequential performance).  Even the slowest HDDs these
>> days are still fast enough to record and watch multiple simultaneous
>> streams, since they are still large sequential operations, just
>> interleaved
>> with each other.  Also, the bitrates required for recording and playback
>> are relatively low compared to the sequential throughput of HDDs
>> available
>> today.
>>
>> Hosting the OS/system/database/metadata on an SSD does make more sense
>> however since those items will benefit much more from the higher random
>> throughput, and do not take large amounts of space.
>>
>> If you're worried about losing data from drive failures, I think backups
>> and/or drive mirroring are a better method to managing that.
>>
> Don't forget other important advantages of SSDs: No moving parts. Much
> lower power consumption - less heat. No vibration. Often much smaller
> form factors - I've seen SSDs as mini-PCIe cards.
> 

All of those are only advantages if you are trying to make a combined
FE/BE that sits in front of your TV, and it's either going to be a low
capacity system, or cost is no consequence.