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

[jedi]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:20:00AM -0400, Ian Evans wrote:
> 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.

[deletia]

> 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?

    You could go months without replacing a drive but you might end up 
with another drive failure in the meantime and lose all of your data. 
Alternatively, you could have a spare on hand and have another drive
failure before your array rebuilds itself.

    It's all a roll of the dice. If you are going to delay repairing a
broken RAID array, it's all about how lucky you feel.