When they fail or when the capacity becomes a hindrance. Other than that if you follow your 3 2 1. You shouldn’t lose data.
Replacing after 50,000 hours in enterprise data center setting makes sense. At home it’s not too much issue for me to have a day of downtime replicating data back across drives. It’ll just cost me my time. In an Enterprise setting it will also cost you money. Possibly even enough or more to justify retiring them at 50,000 hours. Though again if you have raid setup with spare drives etc. You can just keep on running while the raid rebuilds itself. Only replacing a drive when they go bad. Or started acting up preparing to go bad.
It all honestly depends upon your it departments budget competence and staffing. It’s not wrong to replace some after 50,000. But it could be wasteful. There are after all people like myself who buy those drives and run them for years without incident.
Vibrational mode failure is more a thing in large SAS backplane enterprise jbod rack mount deployments. Small workstation/NAS deployments with three to five drives etc. Using rubber grommets and all shouldn’t have too many issues causing failure from vibration. However a large Bay full of drives spinning up and down reaching harmonics can absolutely tear themselves apart over time for sure.
When they fail or when the capacity becomes a hindrance. Other than that if you follow your 3 2 1. You shouldn’t lose data.
Replacing after 50,000 hours in enterprise data center setting makes sense. At home it’s not too much issue for me to have a day of downtime replicating data back across drives. It’ll just cost me my time. In an Enterprise setting it will also cost you money. Possibly even enough or more to justify retiring them at 50,000 hours. Though again if you have raid setup with spare drives etc. You can just keep on running while the raid rebuilds itself. Only replacing a drive when they go bad. Or started acting up preparing to go bad.
It all honestly depends upon your it departments budget competence and staffing. It’s not wrong to replace some after 50,000. But it could be wasteful. There are after all people like myself who buy those drives and run them for years without incident.
Vibrational mode failure is more a thing in large SAS backplane enterprise jbod rack mount deployments. Small workstation/NAS deployments with three to five drives etc. Using rubber grommets and all shouldn’t have too many issues causing failure from vibration. However a large Bay full of drives spinning up and down reaching harmonics can absolutely tear themselves apart over time for sure.