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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/22/2014 01:12 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> 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.

See, also:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/535888#535888

Mike