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3 years seems like a very short shelf life for a HD. You seem reasonably happy with it. Was it expected?
by purplecats 6y ago
3 years seems like a very short shelf life for a HD. You seem reasonably happy with it. Was it expected?
- magicalhippo 6y agoI'm not terribly happy with the 8TB Red model, given it only lasted 3 years. It's also been fairly noisy and running hot. I have eight 3TB Reds, so far I've had two of those developing pending sectors after over 6 years of power-on time (no spindown), and of those one developed uncorrectable sectors a year later and I replaced it. The other one is chugging along happily so far with 27 pending sectors. In the case of the WD Red, it went from pending sectors to failing SMART self tests in less than two weeks. So yeah, disappointed about the short life span.
- purplecats 6y agoI have a fanton drives 2tb HDD model from like 2010. i dont use it frequently. it seems to run fine to this day. however, if its going to die soon, will it give me signs of failure, or will it just completely lock my data one day? i would like to get a replacement at the earliest sign, but idk how these things die.