Adding onto the other comments here, this is not my experience at all. If a "spinning rust" harddrive makes it past a year or two, it seems to go on basically i

Adding onto the other comments here, this is not my experience at all. If a "spinning rust" harddrive makes it past a year or two, it seems to go on basically indefinitely. I have a drive from 2009 in active use, plus six (out of six) just about at ten years old in a NAS that get scrubbed monthly and have no errors. I've also had several that were around that age and only got replaced for performance or space reasons. I've only had one fail several years in, and I'm pretty sure it was environmentals (smoke) that did it in.