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

[Jon Heizer]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Michael Schumacher <
> Michael.S.Schumacher at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 6:44:32 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> IE> After facing a 2nd green drive failure since January, I began
>> IE> dreaming of using SSDs as long-term storage. Just curious if
>> IE> anyone's using them as storage for video libraries.
>>
>> Did you consider using a RAID-Array? Cost is much lower and dying
>> drives will not give you a headache. I am using RAID for many years as
>> home storage and never had a data loss or recovery headaches.
>>
>>
> 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.
>
> _________________________


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)
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