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

[Dan Wilga]

On 7/23/14, 11:10 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>
>     On 7/23/14, 10:20 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>
>         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?
>
>     As long as only one drive dies in a RAID 5, you can take as long
>     as you want. But if a second drive happens to die in the meantime,
>     you're sunk. If you go to RAID 6, you're only out of luck if three
>     drives die at once.
>
>     After spending way too much time a few years ago recovering data
>     from a failed drive, I've since gone to RAID 5 and now 6. Is it
>     overkill? Perhaps. But this way I can have a drive fail, send the
>     bad unit back for RMA and get the replacement--all while still
>     having a one-drive safety net.
>
>     Two other things I've found very helpful are smartmontools and
>     raid-check. Between them, they help to point out a drive that is
>     likely to fail before it becomes critical.
>
>
>
> Are you using software raid or a raid controller?
>
Software RAID, specifically mdadm. I would much rather use something 
that could be slower than dedicated hardware, but is not proprietary. 
I've heard about nightmares from folks who had to change from one 
hardware-based RAID to another.
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