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Don't remember to be honest, I would have to check, but not sure in which garage I left it. Its a part of 2000's workstation pc.
A trip down memory lane... Friends and I once stumbled upon a company's dumpster full of old PC's. They were like the accounting job kind, not anything fun like graphics cards and big storage disks, but our eyes bulged at the trove of potential server parts. While many parts broke after being victims of aggressively thrown head-first into the metal dumpster by (I can only guess) people that hated PC's, we scrounged enough working dinosaur bits and threw them in two old tower chassis that we already had, which ran a production website in my home for 3 years. One still ran mostly fine for months after a drive blasted errors at the console. This was when datacenter rentals and co-lo were hundreds per month. Backups, downtime mitigation, all things we learned while hosting and saving money.
These old Kimsufi's may not be as satisfying & fun as dumpster-diving, but at least the datacenter will replace erroring drives for free and cost about the same as the electricity to power it from your home. Affordable VPSs are the same dollar or euro with similar CPU performance, better disk speed, and faster bandwidth with greater reliability, but if you want the dedicated resources and big disk storage, few deals rival the Kimsufi's with the old disks. It feels frustrating to use hardware so old/slow, but think of the savings.
If it were me, I would stress-test the drives. If they pass, you're probably good for a while. If they produce errors, ask OVH to swap with another disk... then if you're near OVH, go find the old drive in their dumpster 🙂 or rest assured you're old disk will go to the next tech-savvy dumpster-diving kid.
Oh, and encrypt your private data because when drives start to fail, they're difficult or impossible to wipe.
It's in their blog.
Yes, some drives are like that. You start to hit only those Spartan like HDDs after like 4-5 years, the failure rates just don't climb, or might even start to get lower.
not sure if bias since you will naturally have less of the oldest drives, or if that really happens. I think we should start tracking at the same level as backblaze does. Kinda wish we did that from get-go a decade ago. We only have partial at that level, and typical is sticker on the drive for the received date, and from where
Do it now.
got to pick "battles" carefully with limited resources
All dev resources right now are tied into the new datacenter + new dedi platform right now.
But even for dedi platform we should figure out some sort of tracking, but that's nigh impossible without resorting to OVH style "backdoor" (they actually call it a backdoor).