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by ars 347 days ago
If you are using enterprise drives those are 10^16, so that might explain it.
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Fair, newest ones are, but two of my older current drives are IronWolfs 16TB which are 10^15 in the specs[1], and they've been running for 5.4 years. Again without any read errors, monthly scrubs, and of course daily use.

And before that I have been using 8x WD Reds 3TB for 6-7 years, which have 10^14 in the specs[2], and had the same experience with those.

Yes smaller size, but I ran scrubbing on those biweekly, and over so many years?

[1]: https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/ir...

[2]: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...