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frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days agoDrives don’t die every few years. Some will, just out of pure statistics, but generally once they’re broken in, they’ll run for years and years. I buy mine used with up to 40k hours on them (~4.5 years) and they keep running for years more. Usually I end up upgrading them before they actually have issues.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Last drive I replaced was a consumer desktop drive that had been spinning in my server for 7 or 8 years. Get better drives than that and yeah, they’ll typically last a while.