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



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