On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > "enterprise" is a nearly meaningless buzzword, especially in the SSD drive > space. > > Not SSD specific, but interesting info: > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/ > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/ > > With rotational drives, some of them that are labeled "enterprise" have > different performance characteristics that are better suited to sitting in a > datacenter, feeding NAS 24x7. > > As far as space for OS only... how big is your OS install? I use partitions > as small as 10 GB for a basic webserver install... > > If you want reliability, buy a pair of 32 or 64 GB drives, put them in a > software raid, and call it done. Greetings That is what I tried to do. Had a raid 10 array for all my data. One drive purely for operating system (with VMs). Well - - - somehow I landed up with a corrupted superblock on one drive on the array. Have had a mountain of hurt trying to get the array read. Raid is not enough - - - I would suggest a raid array (as above) but then backed up to a NAS box with at least daily backups.!! Dee