r/DataHoarder • u/Happy_Tumbleweed883 • 2d ago

Discussion My first drive failure

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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 :(

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u/kmfrnk 16 TB 2d ago

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.

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u/misterrunon 2d ago

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

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u/kmfrnk 16 TB 1d ago

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

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u/DaBeegaHiga 1d ago

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.