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> The time used ranges from 15,000 to 36,000 hours except for two 4TB HDDs, which were both used for about 50,000 hours 20000 hours is more than 24 months. 500
by yobbo 2y ago
> The time used ranges from 15,000 to 36,000 hours except for two 4TB HDDs, which were both used for about 50,000 hours
20000 hours is more than 24 months. 50000 is five and half years.
Someone is probably selling drives that are being retired from datacenters.
- bombcar 2y agoI guess one way to avoid this would be only to buy drives that were released recently; a drive that first shipped in Dec 2024 can't be five and a half years old!
- rsync 2y ago"Someone is probably selling drives that are being retired from datacenters." I would suspect CHIA miners. CHIA miners have long been known to reset SMART parameters for resale: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436558 As that (absurd) project