There are two main ways disks tend to fail:
- The large majority of the time they simply slowly wear out. We constantly monitor and proactively exchange disks to keep them fast.
- Occasionally they fail suddenly and without warning. Unfortunately this happens to old and new disks a like. It's the nature of the technology.
If you want more security against data loss, you can choose the RAID10 option in your configuration in your Control Panel. This cuts your available disk space in half, but the data is spread twice across two disks and if one fails the other will still have all of your data. Disks speeds will not suffer.
We're always working to improve things here at Seedboxhosting.com. From time to time, when we discover a failing or aging disk or just have newer and faster servers, we will migrate your seedbox to a new server.
This happens in the back ground and usually takes a day or so. We may ask you to not add any new large torrents until the move is completed. Occasionally we may need to migrate faster than normal as in the case of quickly failing disks. You will be kept up to date about all these things in our support system.
The only thing that will change when the migration is complete is your IP. This will be transparent as your seedbox name, domain, & password will stay the same. Your seedbox will be rebooted at the end of the migration.