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I've been building/upgrading my own systems since the early 90's and I've never had a HDD fail because the drive itself completely died. I'm not saying it can't happen but that's what backups are for. For the most part, I've replaced the drives because I needed more space or more speed long before the drives themselves failed. The oldest drive I have in any of the family's systems today is from 2015. Back then, I was replacing 500GB (or less) spinning HDDs which are basically worthless now. Today, the only place I have spinning HDDs are 4TB drives in a NAS.
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matblue25 wrote: I've been building/upgrading my own systems since the early 90's and I've never had a HDD fail because the drive itself completely died. Nor have I. But I have lost files because of bad sectors, and was thankful I had good backups.
Always validate backups. In the early 90's I worked for an office that had a great backup schedule. Nightly incremental backups, full on Friday nights, full monthly backups that were kept for a year. They had been doing this for years!
It worked fantastic until we had to restore 1 file from a backup. Turns out we couldn't read any of the backups. Daily swapping of cartridges for years was a completely pointless effort.
That office replaced the backup system 9 months after we reported the problem .......
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100% agree. Online, offline and offsite backups and check them regularly that I can recover files.
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