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If you keep upgrading you don't see HDD failures, and SSDs don't really fail, just degrade.

It's the minority that become unlucky. Rejoice as you're part of the satisfied majority.

It's bad luck for most people, unless you own a Seagate 3TB.

I've been using a Seagate 500GB drive for 7 years and I recently retired it because it had a couple bad sectors from old age.

Using a 2TB Seagate BarraCuda now, good drive.

>People are retards. The oldest computer I have is a 13 or so year old Mac that runs as good as the day I got it.
You can't really do anything to prevent mechanical hardware failure. It's pretty much up to luck.

What's the best way to back up like 4 terabytes on 4 different disks?

You just got lucky. I've bought hard drives that failed within months and I've bought hard drives that have lasted longer than 10 years. The hard drive manufacturers only guarantee their drives for a few years so even they don't think it's reasonable for them to last that long.

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I've had one HDD fail on me ever, which was probably a result of me taking that desktop to and from University like... 6+ times
And it didn't fully fail, it could still be read and copied off at a super low bandwidth using a sata dock, it just wouldnt run properly anymore in my desktop, presumably some kind of failsafe state which gave me time to backup the 2tb of anime I had on it

I'm using a simple rsync script, but that's Linux. I just plug in the backup drvies and start the script, the rest is fully automated. I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of terrible shareware solutions available on Windows.

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Drivepool with redundancy on your important files. Got a 12TB array perfectly backed up.

You can take care of your equipment, for one. Anything outside of initial failures tends to fall on the consumer, from my experience. I personally take all my stuff apart every few or months or so to clean and whatnot.

never had a bad sector on a hard drive and I've been playing games on pc since 1992
I even buy used disks which you should never do

>I personally take all my stuff apart every few or months or so to clean and whatnot.
Exactly how does that help against harddrive failure? You'd probably need the accumulated dust of a hundred years before temperature becomes an issue for a healthy drive.

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What exactly is your maintenance routine for your hard drive? Do you dismantle it and check the bearings? Grease up all the moving parts? Make sure the magnets are still good? No, of course you don't. Don't act like you do anything other than put it in your machine and cross your fingers.

how can someone be "retarded with their shit" when it comes to hardware you dont fiddle with? what kind of retarded question is this? hdds dont fail because of viruses. youre lucky you fucking dumbass

I just avoid all this by getting Western Digital HDDs, always have, one never failed on me.

>What exactly is your maintenance routine for your hard drive? Do you dismantle it and check the bearings? Grease up all the moving parts? Make sure the magnets are still good?
There's likely people on this planet who did that.

>Laptop constantly overheating and shutting down
>Finally had enough and snap
>Rip open the plastic little fan grill on the side
>Notice a soft brick of material sitting inside the fan area and start to pull it out piece by piece
>Realize that is literally dust that has built up over the years and completely barricaded the fan area

And I never bought a laptop again.