I keep hearing people say that hard drives won’t last long and to always have backups. But if it is like that, that means you would have to be buying drives consistently? Has anyone ever had a hard drive work for them successfully for a decade or even more where they wouldn’t have to be buying more?
Just like most things on reddit, overblown… obviously we all have random failures. I have a Dell R510 with 12x4TB disks. I had one develop bad sectors and another have some kind of issue that was cause it to make the array lock up. I think it was an issue with its board on the drive.
At the same time I have another R510 that is my cold backup with 12x2TB disks… no problems. Almost all my disks are used pulled from the company I used to work for… don’t give a shit.
If you backup or have multiple copies of stuff, who cares if drives die.