> If OP's 2014 4 TB HGST drives are anything like this, then this is just snake oil and magic rituals and it doesn't really matter what you do.
It might matter what you do, but we only have public data for people in datacenters. Not a whole lot of people with 10,000 drives are going to have them mostly turned off, and none of them shared their data.
It might matter what you do, but we only have public data for people in datacenters. Not a whole lot of people with 10,000 drives are going to have them mostly turned off, and none of them shared their data.