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  • "How Long Do Disk Drives Last?" by Andy Klein

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Fri Dec 17 14:59:53 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    "How Long Do Disk Drives Last?" by Andy Klein
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

    So after five years, have a proactive replacement plan for spinning disk drives.

    Lynn
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  • From VanguardLH@V@nguard.LH to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Fri Dec 17 17:34:39 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    "How Long Do Disk Drives Last?" by Andy Klein
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

    So after five years, have a proactive replacement plan for spinning disk drives.

    The rigor under which drives are exercised that are employed in a mesh
    network of worldwide data centers under constant use with high traffic
    volume is NOT the same as drives experience in consumer-grade systems.

    Besides, the point of backups is to recover from hardware failure, even
    in RAID setups, along with recovery from data loss (e.g., driver or OS
    updates, program updates, user error, etc). Backups should be
    scheduled, and NOT rely on users to initiate the backups. Relying on
    users means backups won't be current. That's the proactive plan.
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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Wed Dec 22 00:43:53 2021
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    On 12/18/2021 4:59 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "How Long Do Disk Drives Last?" by Andy Klein
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

    So after five years, have a proactive replacement plan for spinning disk drives.

    Lynn

    I have an old Hitachi 160G SATA hard disk that is still working. It's no longer the workhorse, of course.
    --- Synchronet 3.19a-Linux NewsLink 1.113
  • From Joe Pfeiffer@pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt on Wed Jan 5 09:19:47 2022
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    "How Long Do Disk Drives Last?" by Andy Klein
    https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

    So after five years, have a proactive replacement plan for spinning
    disk drives.

    All my spinning drives are RAID1. When either one fails, I replace it.
    There's also a nightly backup. I suspect the price of SSDs may have
    reached the point that when I lose my next spinning drive, it'll be time
    to get serious about transitioning to them.

    Note, so far as I'm concerned, all disks should be RAID1, even if
    there's only one drive in the array. When the time comes to upgrade
    capacity, there is no easier way to do it than add the new drive to the
    array, wait for it to sync, remove the old drive, and resize the
    filesystem.
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