How long do you keep your NAS drives?

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John19612

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#3047365 8-Mar-2023 12:54

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Until either the drive dies directly or when SMART tells me a drive is going to die. Whichever comes first. Unraid server with double parity, mainly using shucked drives.

mentalinc

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#3048327 9-Mar-2023 20:42

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I'm considering to move to retire after 5 years of use.

They seem to just die completely with no/very limited warning at this point.

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#3095530 27-Jun-2023 18:50

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The seagate died yesterday. I've dropped in an 8TB Toshiba N300 to replace it, the data rebuild is scheduled to take 16 hours.

Having a parity drive plus off side backup for critical files really does take the stress out of the whole exercise.

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#3095651 27-Jun-2023 22:14

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I tend to replace them when they die or get too small.
I had one Seagate 4TB die the other week and it was 9 years old. I have had 3 drives die in the last 15 Years and average around 8-10 drives running in my nas.
I replaced two 2TB drives that were 10-11 years old with one 6TB.

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