I don't think ssds last longer than regular drives. You would be better off setting up RAID, with 3x 2TB (or 4TB) drives for every 2TB (or 4) of data, using either RAID 4 or RAID 5. An external NAS RAID enclosure might be the way to go. I haven't done this, but I should.
On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 12:16:28AM -0700, Michael Christopher Robinson > wrote: > > I suspect that my two Western Digital 4TB Red drives are only 3-4 > > years old. I'm running FreeNAS 9.10 U3. I'm getting an error > > finding the ZFS filesystem that is striped across the two drives. > > Thought maybe I had done a mirror, no such luck. I suppose I can > > take these drives to someone who can do some tests to find out if > > one or both of them have gone bad. Can they be repaired? How > > about the data on them? > > Any data that you do not have two copies of, you have zero > copies of. Backups. http://dirvish.org > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com <javascript:;> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org <javascript:;> > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
