On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > > > I actually see both sides of it... as nice as it is to have a chance to recover the information from between the last backup and the death of the drive, the reduced chance of corrupt data from a silently failing (spinning) disk making it into backups is a bit of a good balancing point for me. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
