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As someone who services client SANs, I could not disagree harder. I cannot count how many times I have seen some site suffer a poweroff and then half the spinne
by jabroni_salad 6y ago
As someone who services client SANs, I could not disagree harder. I cannot count how many times I have seen some site suffer a poweroff and then half the spinners don't power back up even though the health checks were previously green checkmarks across the board. Most folks plan their RAID for 1 or 2 failures, not 6!
If you want to archive at rest, bluray/dvd or tape in good climate controlled storage is the only way to do it. Your HDD will spontaneously die simply because it is a moving part well before a comparative SSD reaches the write-limit.
- vel0city 6y agoI agree on the idea of BD/DVD/tape in a well-kept environment for good long term storage. When storing on optical media you'll want to be sure to get an archive-grade storage medium like M-DISC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC
- m463 6y agoI've had DVD archives become unreadable a few years later and stopped using them. Is your argument that drives that can read them will get better faster than the media degrades?