or you could power them on 1-2x /year.
Power them on and run something to exercise the read function over every bit. Thats why a ZFS filesystem integrity check/scrub is the useful model.
I'm unsure if dd if=/the/disk of=/dev/null does the read function.
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Power them on and run something to exercise the read function over every bit. Thats why a ZFS filesystem integrity check/scrub is the useful model.
I'm unsure if dd if=/the/disk of=/dev/null does the read function.