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

[Ian Evans]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After facing a 2nd green drive failure since January, I began dreaming of
> > using SSDs as long-term storage. Just curious if anyone's using them as
> > storage for video libraries.
>
> SSDs are the wrong solution to this problem. They fail sometimes, too.
>
> My backend is also my general purpose NAS. It's got a big RAID5 (I
> really should migrate to RAID6...). Everything I want to survive a
> drive failure goes onto the RAID. This includes documents, photos, and
> recordings I want to archive.
>
> However, I don't actually record to the RAID. I have a pair of
> independent disks in a storage group for recording. This provides
> great performance, and most of my recordings never leave these disks
> before being auto-expired. If there's something special I want to
> survive a drive failure, I just move it into the RAID storage group.
> Mythtv will search all storage groups for a recording, so I can move
> stuff around without issue.
>
> The system drive (boot, database) is SSD.
>
> Don't forget the off-site backup for stuff you really care about.
>
>
>
I've never looked at raid before. Here's one question: How long do you have
to replace a dead drive? My drive appears to have died a few days into a
two week vacation. IF the rest of the drives were still healthy, would you
be able to toss a new drive in at that point and still be okay?
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