Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
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
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