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Good thing I'm stocking up on used HDD's.
How long do HDDs last though? I've got some from 2015 to 2018 manufacture date. Seems dated and old.
The oldest one I have is from 2007. Still works fine. As for how long they last it heavily depends on your luck. I've seen HDD's from the mid-nineties that still work, not in person just to clarify. I don't have any irreplacable data stored on them. It's also important to use a filesystem that can detect corruption like btrfs, becachefs, or zfs.