I keep hearing people say that hard drives won’t last long and to always have backups. But if it is like that, that means you would have to be buying drives consistently? Has anyone ever had a hard drive work for them successfully for a decade or even more where they wouldn’t have to be buying more?

  • metalwolf112002@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a few IDE drives around for some of my experimental/ project pcs. 40gb or so.

    I have also had to replace a 500gb or two in the raid5 array I use for main storage on my primary NAS.

    I try to avoid buying things like 20tb drives on black Friday because if a drive is going to fail, it probably won’t be while there is a sale going on and I do like have a spare drive on hand.

    I did pick up two 2tb drives yesterday, but that is because I am finally at a point where I could replace a 2tb drive in an emergency. I still plan to run them mirrored.