Hi Jon, I used hdparm to tell the drive to spin down after 5 minutes of inactivity. The backup is simply rsync running as a cron job.
The SSD I used in my office machine was a Kingston. I have to say I was impressed by their customer service. I emailed them on Monday and got an RMA number within an hour. I sent the drive back and had the replacement by Thursday. They offer a 3 year warranty so they must expect them to be pretty reliable. To be honest, even if the SSD is as unreliable as a hard drive, I would still use it. The computer feels so much more responsive with an SSD. Les > Do you have a script that spins up the backup drive, runs the backup and > then spins it down? If so, I'd like to see how you did that! If you > don't spin > down the backup drive, it may wear out at the same time as the main one. > > I have kind of planned on moving to an SSD with daily hard-drive backup, > but haven't worked out the exact mechanics of how to do it. I just got a > 250 gb SATA drive for the backup, but haven't figured out what SSD to get, > they are still a bit expensive. > > If this works out, I might do the same on my server, too. >> I have a SSD in my office computer for the fantastic speed. However it >> did fail after less than 6 months which is rather worrying. It was >> replaced under warranty but it doesn't bode well for long term life. >> > I don't have a huge turnover in files on my desktop system, but would be > kind > of afraid to do this without daily backup. I just was horrified to > discover that if > you recall an old backup "project" in K3B, it doesn't add any files that > were created > since the project was saved. I "ASSUMED" that it recalled only the > directories, > and backed up all files NOW in those directories! YIKES, glad I > discovered this > "feature" before I needed to recover files! > > Jon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
