He also has it posted in three different threads on the servethehome forum and at least 3 threads on ltt forums... And his critical data that he is backing up.... ROMs and console emulators.
I mean, what he stores in the drives is his business, but the fact remains this dude bought some random used drives with more than a decade of use on their back from AliExpress and was told that they are potentially unreliable and could have false SMART data, so instead of doing the logical thing and buying a replacement from a reputable source, with warranty, etc. he keeps posting these in multiple forums, with minimal rewording just to reassure himself. I actually vaguely remember some pretty old posts about this years ago, I wonder if it's the same guy.
People here at TPU have been very constructive in the threads but at this point, he was told everything that he needs or would like to know and more. Past a point it just becomes obnoxious, really. It seems he started at least 9 threads on this exact subject by now, at least from what I can see with regular user permissions, who knows if the mods deleted or merged some.
I don't like to backseat moderate and love to read constructive posts (which the community has provided), but looks like the OP is not exactly interested in knowledge, feedback, exchange of ideas or even reassurance at this point. I just question why continue to ask the same question over and over again, if they are going to get the same answer, you know that quote about the meaning of madness or whatever.
