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Guys , I have a Hdd for 7 years.

XcashFlowGR
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It depends. Does it have bad sectors ? For how many hours has been on ? How many times did it turn on ?

I mean, I have HDDs that are more than 10 years old and that are working perfectly (my laptop is 13 years old and its HDD is perfectly fine, I am not storing anything on it without any save but just like on any other drives). 

You may need to change it but you also may not have to.

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2 minutes ago, Niklos said:

It depends. Does it have bad sectors ? For how many hours has been on ? Hown many time did it turn on ?

I mean, I have HDDs that are more than 10 years old and that are working perfectly. 

You may need to change it but you also may not have to.

It does some weird clicky noises but other than that, it works fine .

 

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If it's been in constant use and you value your data, I'd get a new one. Get a drive utility like Crystal Disk Info that will tell you the health of the drive and how many power cycles it's been through, that's the only real way to tell.

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2 minutes ago, XcashFlowGR said:

weird clicky noises

Then I would not trust it anymore. You should at least have a backup of that HDD and backup it really often. Or just change it... Actually, 500gb SSD are really cheap right now so that might be your best bet.

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Meh depends, I would buy a new one, BUT I'm till using two 2TB drives from 2009 (and they are still working well), but do as I say not as I do

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