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by karamanolev 2411 days ago
There's no real way to avoid failure in any particular piece of hardware. Eventually, everything from the HDD to the computer it's in will fail. The only wait to ensure data durability is to back up across multiple independent physical sites. Even then, there's never a guarantee - it's just that the chance of data loss decreases to levels where other issues start being more problematic, e.g. global nuclear war.