Comment on Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?
triple_entendre@infosec.pub 5 days ago
I’ve had good experiences with both WD and Seagate. According to industry, most HDDs will last at least 3-5 years if they are used regularly, but you can also monitor their health via a number of tools for better lifespan estimation, e.g. smartctl and smartd on Linux. Risk management and a good hardware failure mitigation strategy will ultimately help protect your data for the long run though.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
3-5 years? I’m not sure about that… I got 4 Industry Red HDDs from my job… They have over 10 years of full load and they don’t have a single reallocated sector count, reported uncorrectable errors or current pending sector count.
I guess consumer grade HDD have some kind of programmed obsolescence ?