Some information about the life span of HDDs and SSDs

Maveee

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Only recently I found out that HDDs and SSDs don't last forever..
I was stupid to even think that.

Now my question is: How long do they averagely live, AND when do I know they are dying?
(as in can I replace them in time?)

I have 6TB external (6x1TB) full of data, my worst fear is losing that data.
I have looked into RAIDS systems but I think they're too expensive for me.

In my desktop I have one 128GB samsung ssd (now one year old)

Thank you for your answers
-Mave
 

Maveee

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Are you suggesting that I mirror my hard drives using RAID?