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Great thread! Lots of good technical advice and experience sharing in here. Always RAID. Always keep a backup somewhere else. SMART monitoring. Sometimes there is no warning. Sometimes a worn/old drive with few errors simply fails under load. Statistically for most enterprise drives, you can expect failure rates of less than a percent to a few percent. Consumer drives are often much worst. Stuff just fails, so plan for failures and be diligent about your preparation.
...with a managed host like us... (cough)... just don’t worry about it!
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