[mythtv-users] Mirroring root partition on SSD to a hard drive -- bad idea?

[Calvin Dodge]

I think the hard drive is more likely to fail than the SSD. I think
you'd be better off doing a one-time backup to a hard drive, then
incremental backups.

Calvin Dodge

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have migrated my system disk to an SSD with /var mounted on a separate
> hard drive to limit wear on the SSD. For protection against the day the SSD
> fails, I'm thinking of mirroring it to a partition on an available hard
> drive.  It appears I can do this with either the traditional software raid
> approach using mdadm that looks a lot like what I did with Sun Solaris
> systems many years ago, or with dmraid, taking advantage of the Intel
> hardware (firmware?) support on my motherboard, although that may be an
> issue with the SSD on a SATA 3.0 port and the hard drive on a SATA 2.0 port.
> If I go ahead, I'll have to investigate that.
>
> As complicated as setting up and maintaining this system has been, I'm of
> mixed opinions on whether this would just be another step in the process or
> the straw that breaks the camel's back.
>
> I'd appreciate any advice or opinions.
>
> --
> Craig.
>
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