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HDDs designed for industry have a lifespan of longer than 5 years in typical data centers. In fact, recently there have been many teams across industry expandin
by laluser 3y ago
HDDs designed for industry have a lifespan of longer than 5 years in typical data centers. In fact, recently there have been many teams across industry expanding the lifetime of HDDs past 5 years well into 6 and 7. You can also check out Backblaze's drive stats to see how many drives are actually going past this time span: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2023/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-...
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- RF_Savage 3y agoAnd one would expect actual data center grade HDD's to do even better. Backblaze is fameous for using piles upon piles of consumer grade discs in their offering. Which is why their stats are so valuable to folks who are not running data centers, but might want a reliable drive for their NAS.