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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/22/2014 1:28 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:<br>
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solid;padding-left:1ex">IE> After facing a
2nd green drive failure since January, I began<br>
IE> dreaming of using SSDs as long-term
storage. Just curious if<br>
IE> anyone's using them as storage for video
libraries.<br>
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Did you consider using a RAID-Array? Cost is
much lower and dying<br>
drives will not give you a headache. I am using
RAID for many years as<br>
home storage and never had a data loss or
recovery headaches.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Considered it, but have also
read threads where some think it's overkill for Myth.<br>
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<div>RAID is overkill for Myth. But backups are not.</div>
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On the contrary, for an end user, redundancy is much easier and
cheaper to implement than backups. If all you want to do is protect
against a single drive failure, all you need is one extra drive.
Backups require at minimum double the amount of storage, and proper
backups involve multiple times the amount of storage in rotation.<br>
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<div>ensures that the most valuable data is available even
if you accidentally do something stupid (rm -rf /)</div>
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That's the real issue. Data backups exist ONLY to protect from
corruption and deletion. Filesystem corruption is very unlikely to
happen, and when it does, will most likely just result in minor
decoding artifacts. Is protecting your recordings from yourself
really important enough to warrant the expense of backups?<br>
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