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I'm starting a new thread so as to not hijack the one about alternative |
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kernels, but continue with something Volker raised. |
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On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> as others have written already: ssd. |
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> With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. |
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> Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. |
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> And that is first hand experience. |
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I haven't yet started using SSD and have wondered what sort of a system should |
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I set up to guard against such instantaneous catastrophic failures. I am |
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interested to hear what strategies people deploy to avoid data loss with SSDs, |
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especially on laptops that don't have the luxury of raid redundancy. |
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With spinning drives I use tar and rsync at regular intervals. There have |
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been a few rare cases where a drive failed without prior notice - the last one |
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after a reboot. In such cases I am prepared to live with the risk of some |
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data loss, on machines where raid is not an option. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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