> Some of my drives are over 10 years old and still work something unheard of when it comes to rotating rust.
Not at all unheard of! HDDs tend to fail young, or last a very long time.
The oldest working hard drive I have is in my SPARCstation10, so they're about 30 years old now.
In my ZFS home server nearly all the drives are from its original build in 2010, so over 12 years old now. I had to replace one drive early in the life of that system (year 2-ish, forgot exactly) and the rest are going strong.
Not at all unheard of! HDDs tend to fail young, or last a very long time.
The oldest working hard drive I have is in my SPARCstation10, so they're about 30 years old now.
In my ZFS home server nearly all the drives are from its original build in 2010, so over 12 years old now. I had to replace one drive early in the life of that system (year 2-ish, forgot exactly) and the rest are going strong.