How long are you supposed to go before replacing your hard drive, anons?

How long are you supposed to go before replacing your hard drive, anons?

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It makes no difference.
Every device rots.

Use BTRFS or ZFS unless you are okay with your data degrading over time.

That shit still has years left of life in it. Just run it until you start to see SMART values take a down turn. If you have a hard drive with 50k+ power on hours that would be a point to start moving important files off to a another drive.

I cycle out old drives after 2 years or one bad sector Raid 5 takes a while to rebuild but it works well.

Okay, I've had this HD for years on my laptop and wasn't sure whether it was safe to transfer my files too or not.

I have no idea how RAID stuff works to be honest.

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RAID is dead.
Anyone who trusts a hardware RAID is an idiot.

Any hard drive that has been in use a couple of years and still has good SMART readings I would consider "broken in" and would be ok to transfer important files to. Still should have those file in multiple locations and one something that is not a hard drive if there that important

Do not just trust your files.
Checksum them.

All sorts of weird shit happens to data, online, and offline.

That's why I use software raid. Cheaper amd better

Holy fuck his voice is so boring

I don't know, you tell me.

I'm on Windows though, so how would that work?

I'm guessing I'll need to setup a NAS, install a distro that supports ZFS on it, then simply connect to my store via local network to access the files.

In that case, what's the best linux distro for ZFS? And what type of specs would I need to build something like a fast local file server

Bit rot has not been an issue in the last 7 years

Not him but I run a minimal CentOS image that mounts ext4/xfs/btrfs HDDs and shares them via SMB. It's fairly lightweight, can even play games with it running.
If you really care about your data and have money to burn, get a small NAS with ECC RAM.

>If you really care about your data and have money to burn, get a small NAS with ECC RAM.
Yes I have 32TB and it's very important.
Any recommendations for which NAS I should get, or if I should just build it?

Probably cheaper to build it yourself. Look into cheap Xeon E5s and SuperMicro mobos.

You'll always get the best results by building a NAS yourself. That way you can also stick more processing power in it and make it serve more purposes than just being a NAS.

I can't believe file storage can be such a hassle.

Your anime is safe until you start to see yellow

my last one lasted 4 years

You should start prepping for failure 5 years out, and should have it replaced no later than 10 years, presuming you use it regularly.

Model Family: SAMSUNG SpinPoint F2 EG
Device Model: SAMSUNG HD103SI
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 082 082 011 Pre-fail Always - 6140
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 253
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 086 086 000 Old_age Always - 68383
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 073 059 000 Old_age Always - 27 (Min/Max 24/30)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 072 058 000 Old_age Always - 28 (Min/Max 24/34)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27505035
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

You can go until you start getting uncorrectable errors (198).