On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 09:59:53 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 01/29/2017 02:09 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Do you have a SSD? That sounds like symptoms of a failing SSD to me > >> (it's happened more than once to me :/) > > > > Yes, nothing but one 256 GB NVMe drive in this box. Is there something > > like > > hdparm that will keep an eye on it for me? > > > > I hope it isn't that already: the whole system only dates from last May. > > I used to run an SSD on my home server (running mythtv, among other > things), until one day I got home and it was misbehaving. > > I couldn't log into the server using ssh, so I logged in on the console. > Everything appeared to be running but nothing new would load. Tried > sync'ing to see if I could remerge various packages but got a similar > weird error and found out half my portage tree was *poof*. On further > inspection, about 40% of the OS files were gone. No wonder I problems > logging on. > > This happened twice to me, so I no longer use SSDs on machines I use as > servers in my home, they're just too unreliable. At least with spinning > rust you get some warning and can usually do some recovery.
PVR/DVRs use a different specification of drives, which spin at a lower speed and remain cooler for long(er) periods of operation. > As far as monitoring, some vendors have tools for that I believe. They > usually do run SMART. > > Are you running fstrim once in a while like it's recommended? Apparently > using 'discard' as an option when mounting is no longer recommended. On > my laptops I use a systemd timer to do this. Before that I used anacron > (I think it was anacron) which would run missed cronjobs. > > Dan This is surprised me ... I just installed Gentoo on a MacBook and the handbook/wiki said to use discard in fstab ... I'm running two PCs like this now. :-/ Is there a URL somewhere recommending otherwise? -- Regards, Mick
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