Concur with the life expectancy of spinning rust. I've seen as much as seven years, but that's pushing it -- hard.
A NAS with hot drive replacement capability can, as you no doubt know, mitigate the issue of those conventional drives needing "frequent" replacement. I too have wondered about the longevity of SSD. I have recently started replacing OS drives in workstations with SSD: the OS drive is easily reproducible with proper backups and automation. Not enough data yet (< 2 years) to know how long they'll last in "production". ~David On 01/23/2018 03:08 PM, Tim Camp wrote: > Thanks for the input, yes our whole network is 1gb. > > I know of course the cost factor of SSD just wonder if there is enough > data out yet on reliability and life span. > > I have typically gotten about 5 years out of Google quality sata drives > before they start getting flaky. I have two drives nearing that mark and > want to get ahead of it. > > Thanks again > > Cheers > > Tim > > > On 23 Jan 2018 14:52, "David Klann" <dkl...@linux.com > <mailto:dkl...@linux.com>> wrote: > > Hey Tim, > > You definitely don't need the speed of 10K RPM drives, and SATA plenty > fast enough feeding the bits to caed(8). As far as SSD vs spinning rust > goes, I'd say go with your budget. SSDs are still pricey compared with > conventional hard drives. > > I built a 24-drive NAS with conventional 3TB drives running FreeNAS > several years ago. We just updated the FreeNAS software to version 11, > and it's humming along nicely. > > You didn't ask about this, but here I go anyway: the main thing I > recommend is to make sure to use Gigabit (or greater) network interfaces > on your file server, network switches, and the devices producing and > "consuming" that audio. I build Community Radio station WDRT (single > station, with just 3 studios) using 100 mbps networking, and needed to > upgrade the audio computers to Gigabit networking a couple years ago; > audio file transfers were simply too slow. > > Hope this helps! > > ~David Klann > > On 01/23/2018 02:29 PM, Tim Camp wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Any thoughts or considerations for NFS 1tb network storage for > var/snd ? > > > > Drawbacks to SSD? > > > > 10k rpm SCSI Vs 7200 rpm SATA ? > > > > Being accessed 24/7 by 6 stations > > > > Thanks for your thoughts > > > > Cheers > > > > Tim Camp > > WZEW-FM WNSP-FM > > Mobile, Al. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Rivendell-dev mailing list > > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > <mailto:Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org> > > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > <http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev> > > >
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