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

[Ben Kamen]

On 2016-01-15 1:28 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
> ....
>> Interesting they've cleaned up since sold to Toshiba (which is good)... but
>> does it matter? Are they still avoided due to name?
> Some will avoid them due to name.  Just like some will
> avoid Seagate, or WD, or .... due to a personal bad
> experience with a particular model.

That brings up an interesting note worth sharing.

A server here at home (Linux) has a RAID1 root filesystem running WD drives.

I bought all the drives in 2011 (3) so I'd have a spare when needed.

I recently started having IO issues with one of the drives so I replaced it with the spare.

That spare started reporting errors doing the SMART short self-test at 55hrs.

I reported this to WD and asked if they would consider a warranty replacement considering the power on hours.

They did! (but they could only supply a replacement 1TB drive. )

So I got the drive -- put it in and returned the drive in question.

On receipt, they reported it was a counterfeit drive!!  (Which I bought from Newegg.)

So I had to get Newegg involved -- provided all the needed receipts and what (keep those receipts people!)

Ultimately it was taken care of. (as Newegg should have.)

But the real story is that WD replaced a drive under warranty that was 4.5yrs old (this happened last fall) based on low SMART reported power-on-hours.

That's pretty much a win in my book.

Cheers,

  -Ben