On Monday 02 March 2020 06:28:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with > a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running > fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this > storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or maybe 1TB SSD > from Crucial. > > My plan would be to install the SSD in the cage, and dd the contents > of the array onto the SSD. I would then change the BIOS to boot from > the SSD, making the RAID array redundant. > > Can someone please tell me whether this plan is feasible, and what > pitfalls I might encounter? > > Thanks, Tony
Its been my experience here, that drives that run 24/7, tend to run essentially forever. Shutting down and starting back up are the most dangerous times in the life of spinning rust. I have an old spinning rust 1T here that has over 100k hours on it, and has not added to its original 25 reallocated sectors in all that time. I was going to show its report, but apparently it got cycled into a drawer with the last rebuild of this box after I had a fire at one of the usb ports and had to replace that 12 year old mobo. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
