Let me guess: you "need" more?
>>728539874yes I do.am I still gonna use spinning rust as well? yes.
What's the average lifespan of a SATA HDD? ive been storing stuff for close to a decade on a 8TB external WD and about to run out of space, looking to maybe bump it up to a 16TB.Been on hoarding spree to secure a ton of digital shit because i have a bad feeling about the future
>>728539874Is there any actually noticeable benefit for using an external SSD for PS4 games on PS5 or is USB such a bottleneck I might as well buy 5TB of spinning rust for much, much cheaper? Already have an M.2 in the console for PS5 games.
>>728540836Your too late, they are all gone.
>>728540836I had an old HDD that laid in a cardboard box unprotected for close to a decade. Took it out and plugged it in 4 months ago and it's been running like a charm. So long as you keep them relatively covered and stationary they can last forever.
>>728540836That depends on a use case and model, but in general the manufacturer specifies expected life span in the model's data sheet.In my experience, hot use (regular heavy read/write) — advisable to replace every 5-7 years. Warm/cold archive — last over a decade.Also, a PSA: remember to backup. Also remember, RAID is not backup.
>>728539874What do you expect me to do when it finally gives out?
>>728539874i need four 12TB drives running in RAID 10
>>728540836>What's the average lifespan of a SATA HDD?You know what, not that long. Every single HDD I've had failed within 4-6 years, excepting external HDDs which I just lost before it came to that. It's consistent enough that I don't think they were lemons
>>728539874As a matter of fact, yeah
yeah
>>728540836I have some HDD from 2006 and they are still running.My main storage in my PC is HDD and it has been like that for the past 10 years.NVME is faster but SATA HDD is a great alternative for non meme things.
>>728540836Several decades assuming you don't move and bang your shit around very much. Most data centers still use them for long-term storage where retrieval time isn't terribly important.
wtf
>attention whore red lines
>>728544339Based. My WD10EADS is only at 65k hours.
>>728539874Linux with XFCE is barely useable on this.Windows 10 is fucking hell.
>>728540836My HDD has been running for 10 years now through heavy use but you should just keep to the 5 year mark and back it up on a new one. If what you're keeping is really important to you then that's the only way because this shit can randomly fail. Imagine a folder of obscure fanart just turning to dust.
>>728543971So is RAID just a way of speeding up read times by putting the same data on two different drives you can read from simultaneously? I've always wondered
>>728539874>mfw I still have a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 from 2012 that's still operatingIt's basically just a storage drive now but I'm frankly surprised spinning rust has lasted this long.
>>728550758RAID 1 keeps a clone of the same data on another drive, yes. RAID 0 on the other hand "stripes" the data over multiple drives, meaning the data is written alternating writing a few bytes to one drive, then a few bytes to the next drive etc.Both result in faster read speeds. RAID 0 gets faster write speeds too. Striped RAID 0 volumes become the combined size of all included drives. Cloned RAID 1 volumes are only as big as one drive.RAID 0 is riskier, since if one drive fails, your data is unrecoverable. If a drive in RAID 1 fails, you can replace the failed drive.You can combine RAID 1+0 to make bigger volumes that are also safe from the occasional failed drive.But RAID 1 is not considered a backup solution. Just a way to keep your data relatively safer from physical harm.
>>728545578What garbo are you buying..
>>728545578You probably have smokers in the house
>>728545578Stop buying Seagate
>>728540836its definitely not gonna last longer than 15 years of regular use, maybe 16 at the absolute mostif they are in storage and not spinning up though they last a very long time
>>728545578 >buying green drives and seagate hdds which have LITERALLY fallen into the sea and been sold beforelel
>>728552778Probably good advice in general, but I've got a Seagate 500gb HDD that's at least 15 years old that still works.
