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

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