How long are you supposed to go before replacing your hard

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>>62261314
It makes no difference.
Every device rots.

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

>>62261314
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.

>>62261365
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.

>>62261370
I have no idea how RAID stuff works to be honest.

>>62261410
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAuEgepZG_8

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

>>62261410
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

>>62261502
Do not just trust your files.
Checksum them.

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

>>62261453
That's why I use software raid. Cheaper amd better

>>62261453
Holy fuck his voice is so boring

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>>62261314
I don't know, you tell me.

>>62261346
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

>>62261346
Bit rot has not been an issue in the last 7 years

>>62261766
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.

>>62261826
>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?

>>62261906
Probably cheaper to build it yourself. Look into cheap Xeon E5s and SuperMicro mobos.

>>62261906
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.

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>>62261314
Your anime is safe until you start to see yellow

>>62261314
my last one lasted 4 years

>>62261314
You should start prepping for failure 5 years out, and should have it replaced no later than 10 years, presuming you use it regularly.

>>62261314

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).