[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:28:48AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> Worries:
> 
>  - Flash can die with no warning and no recourse. I will be making a
> copy of the flash and keeping it on another medium. Maybe this board
> can boot from the SD slot it has? Maybe I just use a slow USB stick.

Make a backup to your RAID-1 and keep a USB boot stick around.  Speed
doesn't matter much, since you won't use it much.  Every so often --
preferably automatically -- update the backup.

If you're willing to redo the RAID-1, you could just keep a
small partition on it and automatically rsync that from your
root every night. Install grub on it and make it the second
choice for booting.

-dsr-