I have bunch of HDD's starting from more than 15+ years ago. I was recently checking and all of them are readable. Due tp the total number of drives I would notice 80% failure rate.
They're not used as a backup, rather I would start with the data disk and as the price goes down and my needs grow the drive would be replaced with the higher capacity one. And there is an extra set of drives (copy of those) I always back them up.
They're not used as a backup, rather I would start with the data disk and as the price goes down and my needs grow the drive would be replaced with the higher capacity one. And there is an extra set of drives (copy of those) I always back them up.