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[Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes



On 7/10/2015 2:23 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Based on the statistics they gathered, they recommended a policy of
> replacing drives every three years regardless of whether they're failing
> yet. The idea is that disks are cheap these days, and the cost of losing
> data far outweighs the cost of replacing drives before they fail.

Yup.

It helps to have smartd running and checking drives and sending notices 
when SMART failures are detected.

-- 
Rich P.



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