
Not at all. I built my NAS in 2020 so it’s been over 5 years and I’ve had 20 drives running 24/7 that whole time. Some of the original ones I have swapped out for larger drives. But some of the older 3TB ones have over 80,000 hours on them and are still chugging along.
I use unRAID so when one does eventually die I can just replace it and rebuild pretty painlessly. Originally I expected to lose at least 1 per year but they just don’t die. Maybe I’m lucky.
Also I noticed even though 8TB has skyrocketed, looks like 6TB are still around $35 and 3TB are as low as $13 if you are okay with smaller sizes.
All of the normal Arch packages are pre-built, so the only way you’d be compiling things that often is if you installed a large amount of things from the AUR. Make sure you get the bin versions instead of git versions.
The
google-chrome
andchromium
packages are already a binaries so my guess is you needungoogled-chromium-bin
. You can also use the Chaotic AUR repo to get pre-built binaries of a lot of the most common AUR packages. But ideally you should avoid using the AUR when it’s not necessary.While using the AUR is common, it’s a bit frustrating you are blaming Arch for your experience. If you only use pacman you would never compile anything, or have very many conflicts. It’s like if you added 20 different PPAs on Ubuntu and then complained about the problems that arose from that.