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		Spivak on June 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WD My Book users wake up to find their data delete... This is much much less of a problem for consumer workloads. A pair of hard drives can last a household a decade of moderate use without needing replaced.

thebean11 on June 25, 2021 [–]

Sure in the best case. They could also fail 2 years in so you need redundancy to not lose data.

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