[mythtv-users] Red drives

[Fredrik Hallgårde]

On 05/26/2013 09:49 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
> Just curious if anyone's using the WD Red drives in their backends? I 
> read somewhere that they were very reliable.
>
Yes I am using one of the 3TB Red ones. However I haven't had it very 
long but wanted to share two insights I had after a 750GB disk failed 
(overheating).

1. When adding more disks, review whether you should also add more 
cooling (one way or another)

2. It's probably worth having the recordings backed up (even if "its 
only tv") as its a pain to
a) be in a position that some recordings are lost but there are orphans 
in the database
b) be in a position where you don't want to run findorphans (or similar) 
to clean out the database until you have made an attempt to recover the 
recordings (ddrescue to the rescue in my case)
c) explain to the family (mostly yourself) that $100 worth of extra disk 
would have saved several hours of frustration (e.g. "why is the last 
Dora missing?", "should I just clean out the db or not?")

Just a few thoughts...

Fredrik