[mythtv-users] Replace backend 3.5 system disk with 2 2.5 raid1?

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/09/14 19:41, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
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> Note that another option may be a SSD for your system
> drive.  Even SSDs fail (so backups and a recovery plan
> are always necessary), but they do not have the usual
> failure modes of spinning rust, and smaller SSDs with
> power failure protection are getting reasonably cheap.
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Every time I hear this "spinning rust" meme I have to grit my teeth.

While it is technically true that the active layer on a hard drive platter is an 
oxide of iron, it very definitely isn't rust.

Anyone who has taken an old drive apart will know that the disks themselves are 
the smoothest, shiniest pieces of metal you are ever likely to come across - and 
definitely not rusty.

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Mike Perkins