[mythtv-users] Mirroring root partition on SSD to a hard drive -- bad idea?

[Ben Kamen]

On 2016-01-15 2:08 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
>
>> That's pretty much a win in my book.
> I would say that was outstanding customer service,
> and not at all what I would typically expect.
>
> Now, if, as you say, you purchased all the drives
> at the same time, your other drives could be
> counterfeit too.  Did they provide a way for you
> to check?  In some past WD cases, you could
> tell from (carefully) looking at the label.

The other drives are well out of warranty both in terms of time since purchase but especially in terms of power on hours.

(24/7 for since march 2011) -- so I really wouldn't ask for warranty repair.

You do bring up a good question which would be to send the drive that was acting up to see if it was also counterfeit even though it lasted for so long.

(I still have it sitting off in the "bad drives" bin.)

> In all cases I am aware of Newegg has been
> good about taking ownership of counterfeits
> that make it through their processes.

Yes, I was happy they did the right thing and got involved and took care of it like they should have.

> There is, of course, another lesson here.  Your
> "on-site <cold> spare" is not a spare unless
> you have at least run it "hot" for some (short)
> period of time.  I have lost track of the number
> of times I went to a remote location to swap
> in the on-site spare that was still in the new
> sealed box and that failed to operate when
> inserted/powered on.  It is not so bad when
> it was only a walk across the site to get another
> spare.  Not so great if it was (in practice) a
> few hour drive to another location and back.
> Sure, devices can fail while being stored,
> but at least you can say it worked at one
> point (and as electronics tends to have the
> bathtub failure mode, finding (and RMAing
> while still under warrantee) the early failures
> is often goodness).

In the case of this system, I had some other drives I could have used as backups to the cold spare, so I wasn't as worried.

I have done that for other systems since then (where I run the cold spares for a couple days to check for infant mortality).

Yea - we're in the same boat on that one.

  -Ben