It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/ThomasNoname on 2024-07-26 12:07:20.

I just found a 2.2 Terabyte seagate drive I had laying around, and it gave me an idea to start hoarding certain things I find, I want to be sure to keep. I already have another much smaller Western Digital drive on 900 gigs, I use as an archive. But I'm thinking of using the big drive as a cold storage device, I only open every now and then, and put things on, and use my 900 as my hot one. How long would this drive last? If we assume it doesn't have any defects from the start. Depending on this, I think I'll replace it every x years, maybe.