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Looking for advice on timing of external USB disk drive replacement. Do it before failures begin? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Biscuits99 on 2024-06-30 11:55:00.

I know its hard to say with any certainty, but I'm looking for a rough suggestion to when I should replace my external USB drive. Should I just wait for it to start reporting failures? Its just a disk attached to my main PC for backup purposes.

I've just bought a replacement (as I thought the original had failed but it turns out AV was just conflicting with it), so its ready to go if I want to replace it.

Current Disk details

Seagate Backup Plus 4TB (Bought Oct 2015)

Power On Time: 6.1 years

Full Stats: https://imgur.com/a/xQnxujF

New Disk ready to go:

4TB Seagate Expansion

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