[mythtv-users] Anyone using SSD for long term storage?

[Tom Hayward]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> After facing a 2nd green drive failure since January, I began dreaming of
> using SSDs as long-term storage. Just curious if anyone's using them as
> storage for video libraries.

SSDs are the wrong solution to this problem. They fail sometimes, too.

My backend is also my general purpose NAS. It's got a big RAID5 (I
really should migrate to RAID6...). Everything I want to survive a
drive failure goes onto the RAID. This includes documents, photos, and
recordings I want to archive.

However, I don't actually record to the RAID. I have a pair of
independent disks in a storage group for recording. This provides
great performance, and most of my recordings never leave these disks
before being auto-expired. If there's something special I want to
survive a drive failure, I just move it into the RAID storage group.
Mythtv will search all storage groups for a recording, so I can move
stuff around without issue.

The system drive (boot, database) is SSD.

Don't forget the off-site backup for stuff you really care about.

Tom