I may find myself in disagreement with many here, but I perform little to zero periodic maintenance on my primary computer. And it gets HEAVILY used, 16 hrs a day, every day.
My servers have sophisticated scripts that watch over things, but for the most part they don't do any maintenance either. I just get emails when there are problems that either they have automatically repaired, or that need my attention.
I used to pull all the drives out of the servers once a year and do a health check on them, but I haven't found time to do that recently and it's overdue. I probably won't like the results anyway.
I know I have somewhere between 1 and 3 drives getting ready to fail due to some advanced scan testing that runs on all attached drives continuously. (one of them is pestering me almost daily.... ) On that note, I'm looking for cheap 4TB satas, and would also like to know if the gen1 mac pros can use bigger drives, they have 2's, will they take 3-4?
