CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ithoughtisawa2 That's a good hint. Thanks.
No problems so far, but I wasn't aware it was running so long already. SMART looks okay. Maybe this HDD will still last some time. But at those prices and how they just get higher and higher, it'll probably be wise to buy something and anticipate the failure.

Re data protection: my server runs Unraid and this HDD is the parity drive. So no problem. Same, if it would be one of the data drives.
With this setup I could even use the new drive already as second parity drive and just increase the level of fault tolerance.

@homelab I'll also try to implement the UPS strategy I got up my sleeve ASAP. Can't risk no head crashes at this rate.

On of my HDDs in my server has a power-on time of 5.7 years already. Damn! I was trying not to, but here I am looking into buying hardware in 2026.

Do the fine folks of @homelab have any crucial hints for me? How do I not buy fakes or relabeled ones? Any way to save some bucks or is it just what it is?
I'm looking at CMR NAS-grade HDDs with about 6-10 TB.

@meistermeier Du hängst auch im BSmesh rum? Sehr gut!