<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Tom Hayward <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esarfl@gmail.com" target="_blank">esarfl@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 class="">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> After facing a 2nd green drive failure since January, I began dreaming of<br>
> using SSDs as long-term storage. Just curious if anyone's using them as<br>
> storage for video libraries.<br>
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</div>SSDs are the wrong solution to this problem. They fail sometimes, too.<br>
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My backend is also my general purpose NAS. It's got a big RAID5 (I<br>
really should migrate to RAID6...). Everything I want to survive a<br>
drive failure goes onto the RAID. This includes documents, photos, and<br>
recordings I want to archive.<br>
<br>
However, I don't actually record to the RAID. I have a pair of<br>
independent disks in a storage group for recording. This provides<br>
great performance, and most of my recordings never leave these disks<br>
before being auto-expired. If there's something special I want to<br>
survive a drive failure, I just move it into the RAID storage group.<br>
Mythtv will search all storage groups for a recording, so I can move<br>
stuff around without issue.<br>
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The system drive (boot, database) is SSD.<br>
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Don't forget the off-site backup for stuff you really care about.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've never looked at raid before. Here's one question: How long do you have to replace a dead drive? My drive appears to have died a few days into a two week vacation. IF the rest of the drives were still healthy, would you be able to toss a new drive in at that point and still be okay?<br>
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