Here <http://www.zdnet.com/article/ssd-reliability-in-the-real-world-googles-experience/> is a short article on Google's experience with SSDs. (UBER -> Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate) I quote:
"But it isn't all good news. SSD UBER rates are higher than disk rates, which means that *backing up SSDs is even more important than it is with disks*. The SSD is less likely to fail during its normal life, but more likely to lose data." Wayne On 05/10/2017 07:04 PM, Nat Taylor wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
