It appears to work fine (it contains my home partition for my main machine I daily drive) and I haven’t noticed signs of failure. Not noticeably slow either. I used to boot Windows off of it once upon a time which was incredibly slow to start up, but I haven’t noticed slowness since using it for my home partition for my personal files.

Articles online seem to suggest the life expectancy for an HDD is 5–7 years. Should I be worried? How do I know when to get a new drive?

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Don’t forget to scrub and checksum your drive before making backups. You don’t want to copy over rotten bits.

    Same goes for the backup. And the backup’s backup.

    • tkw8@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Don’t forget to scrub and checksum your drive

      What is the process for doing this?

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          Lol, so the process is “go back in time and change how you initially formatted the drive”. Come on man.

          Good knowledge for setting up new drives though.

          • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
            13·
            2 days ago

            Well, sure. If you did it wrong the first time around. For everyone else, just run “btrfs scrub <device>”

          • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            Use btrfs-convert to convert ext4 to btrfs.

            NTFS is 31 years old and not modern by any standard. Avoid if you care about your data.