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

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> On the converse, I once in the past set up a system for a phD at a local
> engineering university where the root system was an SSD (against my
> recommendations) but warned the
> scientist NOT to work the SSD with a lot of write operations.
>
> He ignored me, and burned out the drive in about 3 months.

Probably a coincidental random failure.

Many of the systems where I work need a lot of RAM so we often use
SSDs as swap devices (e.g. 256GB RAM + 512GB SSD swap) and they can be
used heavily.  They don't burn out in months.

Eric