[mythtv-users] 3TB...poof

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 18/03/2019 07:53, Craig Pratt wrote:
> Every drive failure I've had has been heat-related. And a constant-use
> drive can generate lots of heat. I went through 3 disks in my Myth box
> until I figured out that the cabinet I had the PC in wasn't ventilating
> enough (and hddtemp was showing the drive was hot - over 40C). They all
> failed in ways similar to what you're describing. It required a lot of
> labor to get the recordings off the disks when they started to fail - as
> they would work for a while and then die.

During the course of last year I bit the bullet and went to all-flash.
Very expensive but much quieter (of course), less power-hungry and much
less heat.

# df
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used  Available Use% Mounted on
udev             16273212          0   16273212   0% /dev
tmpfs             3260772      18284    3242488   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p1   95989516   33523784   57566612  37% /
tmpfs            16303844        200   16303644   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                5120          8       5112   1% /run/lock
tmpfs            16303844          0   16303844   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda       3845587976 3441859884  208360364  95% /mnt/disk5
/dev/sdd       3845587976 3455781388  194438860  95% /mnt/disk4
/dev/sdg       1922729864   86856928 1738180824   5% /mnt/disk8
/dev/md0       1821807984  225445836 1503796644  14% /home
/dev/sdf       1922729864   94682744 1730355008   6% /mnt/disk7
tmpfs             3260772         36    3260736   1% /run/user/108
tmpfs             3260772          0    3260772   0% /run/user/0

I then got rid of all of the old hard disks I had been accumulating over
the years. Took several days to secure-erase them all before disposal.