[mythtv-users] Storage best practices in 2017

[Mark]

On 03/23/2017 10:31 PM, Will Dormann wrote:
> That's a little confusing. You care about "video recordings" but not 
> "recordings" ? 
Sorry, video recordings means the DVD's i spent years ripping.  The 
'recordings' is the stuff that myth tapes off the sat box, which i 
usually could care less since i don't have tons saved up to watch usually.
>
> I'd only consider ZFS if you've got 8GB of RAM or more.  The more the
> merrier.
8gb of ram in the server.
>
> Using ZFS (with more than one drive, obviously) or a RAID (linux md) can
> help minimize downtime in the case of a drive failure.   With or without
> redundant drives, you'll want two things to be safe:
> 1) Backups.    RAID isn't backup, yadda yadda...
> 2) Configure smartd to do scheduled self tests (I do daily short and
> weekly long) *and* configure it to email you in the case of a failing drive.
>
> At least with spinning-platter disks, properly-configured SMART will
> often give you a warning before the drive dies.  (it will die).  With
> SSDs, I'm not completely sure how useful SMART is.
I'm still uncertain ZFS makes sense.  merits?
>
>
> -WD
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