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[Discuss] SSD drives vs. Mechanical drives



I'm actually considering using btrfs when Fedora 21 comes out to replace
my RAID-1 mirroring. If a drive fails catastrophically without warning,
as long as I have my backups or snapshots I can recover. 

On 05/05/2014 02:21 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.

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