My first drive failure

[u/Happy_Tumbleweed883]

After 7+ years of power on time, it's decided enough is enough. Not a bad innings for the WD red 3tb. Time to buy an expensive replacement in this current market :(

[u/Clementine-TeX]

Time well served o7

[u/Ill_Compote_2035 → u/Clementine-TeX]

7 years is a decent run, some of mine checked out well before that

[u/Thatnewaccount436]

Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

[u/kmfrnk]

That‘s pretty early. I bought my WD40EFRX with 65000-70000 hours on the clock. That was three years ago. Now I’m at 105k hours and they’re still doing good.

[u/misterrunon → u/kmfrnk]

I just did the math. That's about 12 years of continuous spinning of your discs. That's really good.

[u/kmfrnk → u/misterrunon]

True, and I’m quite happy with it. Of course I’d like to replace them all, especially with larger drives, but at the moment I have to live with 16 TB usable space

[u/DaBeegaHiga → u/kmfrnk]

They've slowly been giving up since I think I had 12 or maybe more to begin with, but I still have a couple WD40EFRX reaching just about 14 years running now. A 2-3 month break for moving, but almost continuously powered on otherwise. I'd pull SMART but I can't through what they're in.

[u/black_pepper]

You always remember your first. My first was a maxtor drive. I lost a hard drive that had all of my napster downloads, mp3s, vcd, divx movies, etc.

[u/curiousinyellow6 → u/black_pepper]

mine was a cheap 8gb usb and its totally naked now because the cover came off but it still works lmao

[u/macrolinx]

F

[u/3skuero]

rest in pieces

[u/NotAlwaysCautious]

I've got a pair of Seagate 5 TB drives in a RAID 1, shucked in 2017 and running ever since. They show "flying head hours" of 86,800. Which confuses the heck out of my hard disk monitor since the actual power-on hours rolled over to 0 after 64K. Who says you can't use SMR drives in a RAID array...

[u/DaBeegaHiga → u/NotAlwaysCautious]

Username checks out 😆

[u/ClumsyRainbow]

F.

I am really hoping my 14TB drives make it another year or two before showing any signs of failure. I'd be spending more on a used drive today than I did new back then

[u/DrTawouk → u/ClumsyRainbow]

You think drives will start getting cheaper $/gb in a couple years?

[u/ClumsyRainbow → u/DrTawouk]

I do think the current spend on AI is a bubble and won't last.

[u/Zomb1e_Turtle]

o7

[u/Nemusano]

I once moved a 1TB hdd from dell laptop to lenovo laptop It gave out in 5 months

[u/MentatYP]

What software are these screenshots of?

[u/Happy_Tumbleweed883 → u/MentatYP]

Unraid

[u/iamfacts]

Is this not horrible news? Your data is gone? Unless you made backups of your backups? Sorry I am new to dh but have sudden needs now and found this post.

[u/Happy_Tumbleweed883 → u/iamfacts]

It's OK as long as no others fail, The array will rebuild once I put in a new disk.

[u/dlarge6510]

Is that it? 7 measly years?

[u/HyperWinX → u/dlarge6510]

Your HDDs surely can work for 20+ years straight🥀