I keep hearing people say that hard drives won’t last long and to always have backups. But if it is like that, that means you would have to be buying drives consistently? Has anyone ever had a hard drive work for them successfully for a decade or even more where they wouldn’t have to be buying more?
8 years mark with my WD Red 3TB drives, still zero reallocated sector count. They were kept always spinning, I don’t know if this influenced things for the better