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How to keep checks on a 14 TB external?
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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I'm a sysadmin and daily, I use servers with many more disks with much more access, so obviously I'm a bit jaded about these things but still:
You can never ever trust a single disk. If you bought it recently it should be good for a while but one day it's going to fail on you and that data is either gone or you're paying $10k to have a professional pull the data off the platters if that data is worth that much to you.
If you're at that level, there are many offerings from NAS companies that would love your business to sell you a simple 2-disk raid NAS, or you could build your own and learn how that works!
Everything fails except old PATA disks. For some reason they tend to last forever.