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Should I be concerned that my HDD, which seems to be working fine, is 8 years old? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It appears to work fine (it contains my home partition for my main machine I daily drive) and I haven't noticed signs of failure. Not noticeably slow either. I used to boot Windows off of it once upon a time which was incredibly slow to start up, but I haven't noticed slowness since using it for my home partition for my personal files.

Articles online seem to suggest the life expectancy for an HDD is 5–7 years. Should I be worried? How do I know when to get a new drive?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Who knows. A few years ago my main drive (seagate 1TiB 10kRPM) exploded in use. It was only 4 years old. The company I sent it to for recovery told me all was left of the disks was dust. I live my life thinking it might happen again any time. This means regular backups (backupS plural).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My father also had a Seagate he kept old family photos on that just unexpectedly died. Their stuff is trash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, all hard drives are expected to die.

Sorry about your photos though. My boomer dad made the same mistake.