I deal with a few family friends who have Mac and use Office. And they cannot grasp this.
Takes hours of training to explain that they have to click the offline save button, inside the save panel, to not get lost on a OneDrive.
I deal with a few family friends who have Mac and use Office. And they cannot grasp this.
Takes hours of training to explain that they have to click the offline save button, inside the save panel, to not get lost on a OneDrive.
If you mean recover the data on it, a failed drive can only potentially be recovered by a professional facility. This is why you should have multiple backups, always.
NAS drives are often the same drives as consumer. Sometimes they have more durable and quieter noise. Sometimes they use slightly different drive components/design. But realistically, most consumer 3.5-inch drives will work fine.
If drives are expensive where you live, it’s best to pick an affordable non-NAS drive with a long warranty. The more expensive the drive, the more important warranty term matters… as you are experiencing.
4TB SSDs are in the $200 USD range and have 5 year warranty now (in many regions/vendors). If you only need 6TB, you may want to go with SSD for more durability.
There’s no need to toss the drives at three years. Run drive diagnostics on them using a tool (GSmartControl, WinDLG, Hard Disk Sentinel, etc). Ideally every six months full scan, at least once per year.
Drives easily can last ten years without issue, and the odds of all drives failing simultaneously is near-zero.
Really you should keep at least one, ideally two, drives at different locations. And add an encrypted cloud backup to the mix.
It’s unlikely any long term failure would be known this soon. Which is why you don’t see stats.
There’s nothing like the SanDisk SSD failure debacle, at least, known in the community.