My theory is, I saw one of the USA team members say representing the USA right now has brought up conflicting feelings for him, which riled the orange idiot up, so I figure they sent old Patel over there to send a signal and intimidate the olympian, and also warn him not to have any more public outbursts, “or else”.
Of course I haven’t paid any attention to the olympics other than that one headline, so maybe he just went to revel in his own corruption. Who knows.
I think this stuff sort of depends on how often you upgrade drives. I bought 2 4TB drives in 2015 running in a ZFS mirror, spinning 24/7 as I had heard that the hardest time on a spinning disk is the initial spin up from cold boot, or sleep. (I’m not sure is this if true anymore, but I had disabled sleep on the drives, regardless)
5 years later, I bought 2 10TB drives to upgrade my storage capacity, and relocated the 4TB mirror to media content, and stuff that was replaceable if the drives failed, so I didn’t need to really back it up.
Juuust now, at the end of 2025, 1 of the initial 4 TB drives failed and now my ‘old’ ZFS mirror is in a degraded state running on 1 drive, but the drive that failed lasted 10 years.
I bet the average home lab or self hoster is probably upgrading and replacing their drives with higher capacity more often than 10 years, so they probably would never actually see a drive fail in real life use.