The drive has been only been powered on and used for read over the last 3+ years. CrystalDiskInfo reports it’s bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds. Only wrote to it in the very beginning when I dumped a lot of archives into it. Otherwise, very few actual write cycles which is making me think it’s still ok to use. However, this isn’t a NAS drive and is consumer-grade bought many years ago.

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    2 days ago

    Even if though it says it’s writing, if it can’t read you might as well backup to /dev/null.