On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 23:47:39 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> 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.

Who made them and what grade are they?

I'm currently using WD Blue everywhere, but think I should probably have
put a WD Red in the always-on house server, but since the Blue's are only
two years old, hopefully it will be a long time before they fail.


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