I actually thought about that quite a bit, back in the day hard drives were made of sugar-glass. Remember the desk-star? Hrm, the death star. Do anything? It breaks. Do nothing? 15% fail rate anyways (or so I remember).

Today I have a 3TB + 2TB (one backs up mostly the other) drives in my NAS (WD, black maybeee) and I think they are 10y plus … I’m not using it as a real backup but I still think I should switch out one. But then again, the Synology is so old too…

I’ve heard about that newer Linux file system, “M” or “L” something where you just add drives and it sorts stuff out itself, maybe I should check that out…