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1 year agoI think it’s possible to have false-positives. Like gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top said above, do a clear and scrub to see if that helps. It happened to me last month after some really intensive disk i/o and AI stuff and I did that and the drive hasn’t had an issue since.
Additionally, I plugged in one of my old, supposedly faulted drives from last year as an external drive on my desktop to test it out, and it is still working fine months later, so yeah, it appears that there is some possibility for false-positives.
Like another person said, make sure you have good backups and that the other drives are solid, but I’d take a wait-and-see approach.
Definitely a trade off between energy and security. I have PBS running on an old laptop backed up to Backblaze and wouldn’t change it for anything, though. Proxmox backups are flawless and have saved me so many times. But yeah, 16GB of RAM with that processor is overkill for PBS and will probably consume more energy than is needed.
If everything is Dockerized anyway, you could just skip the step where you backup to PBS and use something like Kopia to backup your Docker volumes to a network share or offsite, rebuilding with compose or whatever if you have an issue.