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?

  • 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.