I have brought a 5tb hard drive from cex and it has 45000hours of power on time. Is this likely to fail or can I use it for a few years? I use it for movies.

  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So starting off, HDD lifetime is really difficult to gauge, but this drive is already ~2000 hours past the average expected life for an HDD.

    I would expect it to fail sometime within the next 12 months.

    Don’t store anything on there that you aren’t willing to lose.

  • Far_Marsupial6303@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re on the flatline of the bathtub cover between most likely failure early on or late in life. How long is that line? 1 second, 1 year, 10 years? Unknown.

    Mantras:

    Any storage device/media can fail at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.

    BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! Ideally at least two, with one set offsite physical or cloud.