The drive enters the cycle again. I use the drives until they show signs of failure (SMART monitoring/testing), or until I need to upgrade for capacity reasons

The drive enters the cycle again. I use the drives until they show signs of failure (SMART monitoring/testing), or until I need to upgrade for capacity reasons. I'm using "recertified" (really, used) drives that I've written about here: https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/03/used-hard-drives-from-tech-on-tech/ https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/03/used-hard-drives-from-tech.... They are inexpensive and, so far, have been very reliable. (And, yes, I've done restores from the backup sets.)