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?

  • communism@lemmy.mlOP
    5·
    4 days ago

    I’ve not responded to the majority of comments in this thread because I’d have nothing to add except “thanks”, but here:

    They’re now starting to experience random corruptions that will sometimes compromise entire folders.

    Er why haven’t you bought new drives at that point??

    • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      I’m gonna buy a new computer when this one inevitably refuses to boot up 🤷‍♀️ there’s more age related issues besides just the HDD’s at this point so it’ll be less hassle to start over.