SSD & HDD have a limited lifespan (You will find its life expectancy buried in its specifications) however as HDD are mechanical, wear and tear are more pronounced, thus as a rule of thumb, look at the warrantee period given for a HDD by the manufacture, and change it before this time is up. (Even if you’re using a RAID Array this still has to be followed, particularly if all the disks were bought at the same time)
I suspect Diki’s crashes have been because he hasn’t changed them before the expected life span has expired.
Due to programs and files getting bigger, (Particularly Video) most never reach the life span of the disk as users have to upgrade to a larger one to fit all the files on.
Bill
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