It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/howyes on 2024-12-28 21:20:18.

Assuming its legitimately new old stock (it appears to be factory sealed still), is using old hard drive safe? I've got a decent deal on enterprise drives and I'll obviously be making a backup.

I'm probably answering my own question but I've had 15+ year old drives work with zero issues and never had a drive fail on me before but there's always a first time for everything. I'll be using it as cold storage so by the time it may fail, whatever warranty I have would probably be useless anyway.