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The drives in the machine I'm typing on have been running for four years with their only downtime being a power outage that went beyond my UPS's battery life. I've seen them in excess of ten years in the business side. As long as you stay away from Western Digital you should get many many years of use out of one drive.

Now if you want to go longer... you can use tape, or a small external chassis with two or three drives in it setup in an array.
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