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I currently support many NAS servers in the 50TB - 2PB range, many of them being 10, 12, and up to 15 years old for some of them. Most of them still run with their original power supplies, motherboard and most of their original (HGST -- now WD -- UlstraStar) drives, though of course a few drives have failed for some of them (but not all).

2, 4, 8TB HGST UltraStar disks are particularly reliable. All of my desktop PCs currently hosts mirrors of 2009 vintage, 2 TB drives that I got when they're put out of service. I have heaps of spare, good 2 TB drives (and a few hundreds still running in production after all these years).

For some reason 14TB drives seem to have a much higher failure rate than Helium drives of all sizes. On a fleet of only about 40 14 TB drives, I had more failures than on a fleet of over 1000 12 and 16 TB.



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