71-TiB NAS with twenty-four 4TB drives hasn't had a single drive failure for ten years — owner outlines key approaches to assure HDD longevity(www.tomshardware.com)

The NAS owner said the 4TB HGST drives have only accumulated 6,000 hours since their deployment, translating to about 600 hours or about 25 days annually.

I thought the NAS was being turned off on the weekends or overnight, but in reality it has under 7% of uptime.

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Also, I’ve found power cycling stuff is when it fails.

I’ve had machines and many drives running for 10 years, only rebooting as necessary, and never powering off.

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