I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] mikezila@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Try what? Add some pointless solder to a disk and then what? Wait years to see how long it takes to die? How many do I need for a sample size? Do I need to test the same model? What about workloads the drives should be under?

This is pure untestable unverifiable snake oil.

[+] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can take my word for it and try it. Cuz I've done it numerous times and have extended the lives of many many disks. Sure, they all eventually fail, no doubt there. But, at least it will fail later, rather than sooner.

Test any model you like, doesn't make a difference, they all perform better after the surgery. And they will be more stable under workload as well, that can be guaranteed.

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you know you extended the life?

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because some of these disks were proclaimed worn out and not to be used. I still use all of them in 3 custom NAS builds. I sold 2 of them, the owners still haven't reported a disk failiure, that was 2 years ago. I use one of the NASes as my personal storage, mdadm in RAID5, I still haven't had a single disk fail on me. They were all full of "bad sectors" (logical, because of the bad contact between the head/preamp and the control board, bad data was being written to them, passed them with DRevitalize, all of the bad sectors were "reparied"), and yet, somehow, they still work.

Not to mention the numerous primary (OS) drives I've done this operation through the years and most of them still work fine, even though they have fulfilled their purpose (with the advent of SSD and all that). I've also compared the life cycle of identical drives that didn't get this treatment and ones that did. Most of the ones that didn't get this treatment are dead now (head crash in most cases).

Do this surgery to all of your drives as soon as you buy them (or at least after they're out of warranty), disable AAM/APM (wdidle3 in case of WD) (you can do this even if in warranty, it's a software/firmware tweak) and the disk will practically last forever.