• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For me, reliability is now the bottleneck.

    So many HDs are crapping out after about 5 years. Not saying SSDs are better, but I haven’t used any for storage. But it’s starting to feel like a subscription plan as I’m rotating hard drives in my server nearly every year now since 2018.

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      1 year ago

      That seems high. Data center drives have a failure rate around 1% per year, even for the worst manufacturer. Not sure how many drives you have or what your workload is like.