Had 2 drives fail randomly with maybe 5000h runtime, and drives that work perfectly past 25000h, although SMART had some sector error after around 3000h of use.
My personal opinion: Just use it until it fails or until it is to small, then buy a new one and restore your backup.
Had 2 drives fail randomly with maybe 5000h runtime, and drives that work perfectly past 25000h, although SMART had some sector error after around 3000h of use.
My personal opinion: Just use it until it fails or until it is to small, then buy a new one and restore your backup.
Then I'll upgrade/replace as they fail, because I'll most certainly don't top out the 4TB before one of them goes kaboom
I keep getting afraid old drives will fail and they just don't so I currently have 3 copies of my main backups floating around and a fourth about to be made (for off-site)
Same. Have a local backup that copies periodically to an external HD, an air-gapped one in case of ransomware, and then one I swap out at my parent's place every time I visit them (~once a year) to mitigate risk of fire/flood/theft/etc.
All irreplaceable personal files I have saved twice on my PC and once on NAS. Everything else like movies, music and so on that does matter but could be downloaded again is saved once on PC and once on NAS.
All my HDD still work, even those from the IDE era. The only one that failed was my fault because I was too lazy to change a cable and I blew a safety on the PCB, bridged it and it worked again. I guess i'm lucky. I keep multiples backups of my important files anyway.
Years ago I got a T420 brand new and the OEM drive failed a few months in. I put a different (admittedly heavily used) drive in, and it too failed in short order. That's when I made the switch to SSDs for the most part, although I still use HDDs for test/temporary installations and some file archival.
Seen many other HDDs and SSDs fail at work, but that's to be expected with things to run hard 24/7.
Had two of my computers fail in the last 6 months (10.5 year old HD and 6 year old SSD). Didn't have a raid setup, but lost almost no data thanks to regular manual backups and Time Machine packing art assets to a backup drive.
How do snapshots work in btfs or other partition formats? What happens if you just want specific things from a snapshot? Can you just reach in, grab it, and still be in your current session with everything else? How do they not take up huge amounts of disk space?
DOT COM (is the audio bad in this video or is it me?)
Seems fine
About the video: how long do HDD have lasted you anons? I just bought a second hand Toshiba 3.5" 4TB drive
Had 2 drives fail randomly with maybe 5000h runtime, and drives that work perfectly past 25000h, although SMART had some sector error after around 3000h of use.
My personal opinion: Just use it until it fails or until it is to small, then buy a new one and restore your backup.
Yeah, probably will get a second one some months from now and set RAID
Then I'll upgrade/replace as they fail, because I'll most certainly don't top out the 4TB before one of them goes kaboom
I keep getting afraid old drives will fail and they just don't so I currently have 3 copies of my main backups floating around and a fourth about to be made (for off-site)
Same. Have a local backup that copies periodically to an external HD, an air-gapped one in case of ransomware, and then one I swap out at my parent's place every time I visit them (~once a year) to mitigate risk of fire/flood/theft/etc.
All irreplaceable personal files I have saved twice on my PC and once on NAS. Everything else like movies, music and so on that does matter but could be downloaded again is saved once on PC and once on NAS.
All my HDD still work, even those from the IDE era. The only one that failed was my fault because I was too lazy to change a cable and I blew a safety on the PCB, bridged it and it worked again. I guess i'm lucky. I keep multiples backups of my important files anyway.
>blew a safety on the PCB, bridged it and it worked again
Yeah best case scenario
I only buy the cheapest crap available from Seagate and only ever had one drive fail on me before it was 5yr old
Years ago I got a T420 brand new and the OEM drive failed a few months in. I put a different (admittedly heavily used) drive in, and it too failed in short order. That's when I made the switch to SSDs for the most part, although I still use HDDs for test/temporary installations and some file archival.
Seen many other HDDs and SSDs fail at work, but that's to be expected with things to run hard 24/7.
Only external drives gave me problems. The oldest drive I have in current use is a 250GB WD drive for my laptop. 14 years old now.
>oldest HDD from 2010 works fine
>2.5 HDD from 2012 works fine
<bought a 4tb WD Blue last year, only lasted 9 months
The only time I had one that failed is because it was an external one that I didn't take care of properly.
Irrelevant, just run RAID
nothing is forever :/
Had two of my computers fail in the last 6 months (10.5 year old HD and 6 year old SSD). Didn't have a raid setup, but lost almost no data thanks to regular manual backups and Time Machine packing art assets to a backup drive.
How do snapshots work in btfs or other partition formats? What happens if you just want specific things from a snapshot? Can you just reach in, grab it, and still be in your current session with everything else? How do they not take up huge amounts of disk space?
>buy new WD 3.5
>formatted to ntfs
>everything fine
>the superblock gets corrupted
>all data lost
Pain
Threadly reminder to by cheap white label HDDs, do not waste your money on name brands
You might be right. What's your experience with that?