71-TiB NAS with twenty-four 4TB drives hasn't had a single drive failure for ten years — owner outlines key approaches to assure HDD longevity

Alphane Moon · 2 months ago

71-TiB NAS with twenty-four 4TB drives hasn't had a single drive failure for ten years — owner outlines key approaches to assure HDD longevity

slazer2au · 2 months ago

Keeping it off the majority of the time defeats the purpose of using something like this.

Alphane Moon · 2 months ago

Yeah, NAS is meant to be on 24/7.

@hushable · edit-2 2 months ago

The NAS owner said the 4TB HGST drives have only accumulated 6,000 hours since their deployment, translating to about 600 hours or about 25 days annually.

I thought the NAS was being turned off on the weekends or overnight, but in reality it has under 7% of uptime.

@[email protected] · 2 months ago

Also, I’ve found power cycling stuff is when it fails.

I’ve had machines and many drives running for 10 years, only rebooting as necessary, and never powering off.