On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:22:06 +0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:43:10 +0100, Adrian wrote:
>
> > In message , David Higton
> >  writes
> >>At three years old, it's already reached the end of its life, so the
> >>MTTF specification no longer applies.  It is (or should be!) up for
> >>replacement already.
> >>
> >>
>
> Your disk is a mere youth at 18474 hours: the Hitachi disks I had that
> died at a bit under 50K hours were much older than that: one was the

 Hmm I have eight rather old (made in 2012) 2TB 3.5" SAS drives each
with over 50K hours in my house NAS, none of them have yet reported so much
as a correctable error.

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