Re: hardware recommendation

> On 28 Jun 2022, at 20:24, hw <hw@adminart.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2022-06-28 at 20:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 28. Jun 2022, at 19:40, infoomatic <infoomatic@gmx.at> wrote:
>>>> >On 28.06.22 19:21, Robert Huff wrote
>>>> A disk drive on one of my machines is dying.
>>>> I'd like to replace it with a _reliable_ (the old one lasted 10+
>>>> years at moderate loads) consumer-grade SATA II or higher drive
>>>> of at
>>>> least 500 gbytes.
>>> 
>>> In the light of the link to backblaze, my mail seems quite useless
>>> ... I
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> no, your reply is _not_ useless.
> 
> Who are you to decide which replies are useless and which aren't?
> 
>> 1.
>> All tests and user experiences are useless
> 
> That's a useless reply --- because it's not true.

I'm a user with decades of experience.
You did not quote the hole sentence.

"All tests and user experiences are useless, since a disk drive product line does change without notice all the times. Exceptions are general pointers such as yours related to CMR vs SMR or HDD vs SSD."

Specifications of drive foo from vendor bar change without notice. If each person from 1000 people are using 100 drives foo from vendor bar since 7 years without ever running into an issue, it's pointless, since you can' get the same drive anymore. An exception would be, if the 100000 drives were all bought  around a month ago and all of them failed after around 2 days.