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24 hard drives make up a 96tb nas: used for 10 years without any failure

2024-09-15

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fast technology reported on september 15 that in 2014, dutch player louwrentius built a nas using 24 4tb hard drives with a total capacity of 96gb and 71tb of available space. now ten years have passed, and no hard drive has failed.

the hard drive he used washitachi, but did not mention the specific model.

louwrentius believes that the reason for such stability is that in addition to the strong performance of the hard disk itself,the nas is not turned on all the time, it is only turned on when needed, so the cumulative usage time over the past ten years is only about 6,000 hours, or 250 days.

in other words, it is only turned on for less than one month each year.

in order to avoid frequent manual startup,he used a smart power strip, combined with the motherboard bmc, ipmi, and custom script startup management, and shut it down remotely after use.

turning the machine on and off so frequently isn't necessarily a good thing, nor is it the only factor, but it does work well here.

louwrentius had previously used20 samsung 1tb hard drivesthe nas has been used for 5 years without any failure.