On 02/13/2017 10:17 AM, Poison BL. wrote: > > I've had more than one spinning rust drive fail hard over the years as > well, though yes, you do usually have some chance of recovery from > those. Gambling on that chance by leaving a given disk as a single point > of failure is still a bad idea, spinning disk or not. The point that you > went from single-disk SSD back to raid10 makes me question why, if your > uptime requirements (even if only for your own desires on a personal > machine) justify raid10, you weren't on at least raid1 with the SSD setup.
I finally got tired and replaced my old laptop with a ThinkPad P70, and boy is it so much faster than anything else I own. Compile times are crazy fast on this new laptop of mine, but it came equipped with an i7 with 8 threads and 16GB of RAM, which I'm sure helps A LOT. I'm going to get an SSD (or maybe an NVMe drive) for the new laptop and leave /home on ol' reliable rust disks. I do have backups. That's not the concern - the concern for me was turning on the PC and having it completely crap out. I used to have an SSD on my mythtv backend server, and it started behaving strangely one day. I could not log in to the console. X froze. Logged in via ssh and files appeared to be missing on the root partition. Rebooted the backend server and it was completely dead, no warnings or anything. Dan
