<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Ian Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" target="_blank">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Michael Schumacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.S.Schumacher@gmx.de" target="_blank">Michael.S.Schumacher@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Ian,<br>
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 6:44:32 PM, you wrote:<br>
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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>
<span></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Considered it, but have also read threads where some think it's overkill for Myth. Again, thinking of long-term stuff here like a DVD rip or that TV special that'll never be aired again.<br>
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<br>_________________________</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've personally had more SSDa die in the last 4 or 5 years than spinning disks. +1 for a ZFS raidz (or just a mdadm raid5)</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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