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Bofferbrauer on 19 October 2015
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SvennoJ said:
Bofferbrauer said:

SvennoJ said:

My old PC pretty much needs a complete overhaul at this point. Even the HDD can't be trusted anymore. (Those things don't last that long, it's full of recovered bad sectors already) I've switched to using a laptop so it hardly gets used anymore. It's still hooked up to a 1280x1024 monitor... it's getting old, laptop is 1080p.

Similar case here, although I already have a 23 inch 1080p LED Monitor. I do wait for ZEN though as I want to stay with AMD. The HDD problem is one I ran into in the past too, which is why I use NAS HDDs (Like the Western Digital Red series, pretty cheap and reliable) which are meant to run 24/7 over a prolonged period of time

How often do you need to replace a NAS hdd? Data centers clain the mean time for replacement is 6 years, they make far more use of them of course. I have 2 external backup drives to backup important data to just in case. Easy to buy a new one every 5 years and copy the whole lot over.

My oldest NAS HDD is now 6 years old and I had no need yet to switch it out. It still runs pretty much as smoothly as the first day. The Spinpoint F1 I was using before however is pretty much lying on it's deathbed and has lost much of it's performance along the way.

Data Centers normally use SAS (Serially Attached SCSi), not NAS (Network Attached Storage), although due to the price of the former I caould see why some would use the latter, especially in less performance critical servers. Still, the 6 years apply to SAS as far as I know, so it's not entirely comparable.