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rowan · 09-13-2007, 12:54 PM

Do you give your hard drives a finite lifetime and unconditionally replace them by a certain date (say, the end of the manufacturer's warranty), or just wait until they fail?

I have a RAID5 array so it's redundant - one drive failing will not lose any data - but I'm not sure about twiddling my thumbs until the drives fail. By then you probably won't even be able to buy a 300GB drive anyway.

Thoughts?

09-13-2007, 12:54 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Do you RETIRE your hard drives at a specific point? Do you give your hard drives a finite lifetime and unconditionally replace them by a certain date (say, the end of the manufacturer's warranty), or just wait until they fail? I have a RAID5 array so it's redundant - one drive failing will not lose any data - but I'm not sure about twiddling my thumbs until the drives fail. By then you probably won't even be able to buy a 300GB drive anyway. Thoughts?