December 21, 20223 yr Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but when it comes to replacing drives and upgrading I'm using the following methodology: Manually check every drive's smart for 'bad smells', such as errors, etc. Next look at drive size, and look to replace small capacity with large capacity Next look at drive age, if its 4 years+ I'd also love to have some stats like write / read speed, etc. Ultimately I would love to have a 'replace this drive' opinionated indicator so it makes it easier to do maintenance. In theory all the data could be aggregated and presented to the user to save a bit of time on maintenance. This could be extended to be 'proactive', for example I have an SSD thats at 40% left of its life which will soon be up for replacement. This could be good to put some alerts on things like this as an optional reminder or a 'its time to replace a drive' option for data drives. Note: I'm well aware that a single data point isn't a simple binary choice (i.e. one drive might last a year, another 10 years), but when you aggregate everything it is a pretty solid methodology for replacement imo Edited December 21, 20223 yr by spamalam
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