[mythtv-users] advice on recording direct to NAS

[Ben Kamen]

On 2015-05-25 9:55 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Will,
>
> It does say though that the effectiveness of smart is discutabel.
> I use raid1 and it will mail me on failure. So far the only failure
> was caused by a bad cable. The chances of the second disk failing,
> before I can replace or fix the first, are extremely slim. And for the
> things that really matter I keep backups.
>

I've had RAID arrays of various types and sizes (1 and 5) and I've set up smartctl to email me on failures.

So far, I've experienced new drives dying, old drive dying, bad cables, bad SATA controllers...

It's been very helpful and at a minimum should be set up all the time in ANY system.

  -Ben