<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliezer@ngtech.co.il" target="_blank">eliezer@ngtech.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Richard,<br>
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Just keep in mind that depends on your usage the disk might get bad sectors.<br>
As much as many including me would like to not have them happen they do happen for any HDD vendor!<br>
Some things that affect DISK lifespan:<br>
- enterprise\server level usage on a desktop disk<br>
- high times of over heating(can be a result of the above)<br>
- very high number of random direct read+write operations exhausting the mechanical parts of the disk.<br>
- electricity stability issues which can cause magnetic interference in disk operations.<br>
- many others.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In this case it is up 24/7 but it will be used as a DVR drive so I/O wise it's not very demanding.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">And I must admit that I do not want to stain Seagate name and I must add that couple years ago when 250GB was lots of space I bought a WD 250GB HDD that faulted after only about 24 hours of operation.<br>
What would you do after such a thing??</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would prefer it fail in 24 hours rather than a couple of months :) At least then you know you have a bad drive quickly before you start trusting it or get too far away from your backup that you were supposed to do. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Richard</div></div></div></div>