Screw mechanical drives

[Syntaxvgm]

It's always something. 

I'm done. I'm buying SSDs when I can and using HDDs for mass storage only at this point. 

I'm getting sick of this. 2nd drive to start to fail this month. 

I cannot wait for SSDs to be at least the same price as running mechanical drives in raid 1, or twice the price of HDDs basically. At that point, I'll never buy another HDD. 

[Bloodyvalley]

that sucks

[SImoHayha]

It's always something. 

I cannot wait for SSDs to be at least the same price as running mechanical drives in raid 1, or twice the price of HDDs basically. At that point, I'll never buy another HDD. 

maybe a bad choice in HDD ?

[WinNut]

sucks for you m8

[Str_Mape]

maybe a bad choice in HDD ?

More likely just unlucky.

[Syntaxvgm]

maybe a bad choice in HDD ?

This one is 3 or 4 years old I think. I've never lost segate drives, but two of them are song signs of potential failure soon this week. 

Thankfully I think they should survive for a while. BOth seem to work ok, except one just reads and seeks really slow sometimes. 

 

I mean, what are my choices? WD? I loose them all of the time. Hitachi? maybe. I hear the HGST NAS drives are great at least. 

[Speedyv]

This one is 3 or 4 years old I think. I've never lost segate drives, but two of them are song signs of potential failure soon this week. 

Thankfully I think they should survive for a while. BOth seem to work ok, except one just reads and seeks really slow sometimes. 

 

I mean, what are my choices? WD? I loose them all of the time. Hitachi? maybe. I hear the HGST NAS drives are great at least. 

 

My WD has been fine and is pretty darn quiet.

You're probably just unlucky.

[Syntaxvgm]

My WD has been fine and is pretty darn quiet.

You're probably just unlucky.

Luck is 100% it. 

This drive still has not failed. I have some drives that have a bunch of reallocated sectors and still worked for years. So I will still use at least one of these drives to store games and whatnot on there, stuff I can redownload if I needed to. 

[dadasmithywinkle]

Luck is 100% it. 

This drive still has not failed. I have some drives that have a bunch of reallocated sectors and still worked for years. So I will still use at least one of these drives to store games and whatnot on there, stuff I can redownload if I needed to. 

I've had my WD's and Seagates for a few years and they're fine. Recommended daily use life of the HDD is like 4 - 5 years or so (in my opinion).

[Syntaxvgm]

Right now, despite showing this, it's working just fine for the time being. Was slow to respond and low read speeds before, but I'm getting 90-110MB/s reads and quick response again. 

Ah well more steam game space once it get all of the files form it. 

[ictdude1]

luckily they are only reallocated sectors so the drive isnt in to bad shape and all your data should still be there, the new western digital drives are actually better than the seagates in most cases, that drive seems ok but when they start to look like my old laptops hard drive then you want to be scared it has power on hours but for some reason its reset its self to 0

[Syntaxvgm]

 

luckily they are only reallocated sectors so the drive isnt in to bad shape and all your data should still be there, the new western digital drives are actually better than the seagates in most cases, that drive seems ok but when they start to look like my old laptops hard drive then you want to be scared it has power on hours but for some reason its reset its self to 0

 

lol well I have another drive that I mentioned earlier, it has similar stats to this one I mentioned in the OP. I'm imaging it now, and it's not in good shape. high response times, 5MB/s read times intermittently. 

This drive seems ok. I mean, I'm worried, but it could work for years for all I know. So I'm gonna take the file off of it and use it as like a steam game and anime/movie drive. Yah know, for stuff I can replace very easily, I'm not gonna bother putting it back in an array. 

 

This drive only has 240 reallocated sectors btw, so I hope itll stay around. 

But holy balls 6mil reallocated sectors!

[Shadow-R]

Terve!

I really do not know anything about it, but I have used PCs with now 13 years old HDDs and they work. Also I do have some Win95 stuff lying around that also works.

Just for fun I downloaded this program and it says that I have 200 reallocated sectors (without displaying it as dangerous though).

I don't relly know if people should worry that much about HDDs.

Because I've only seen two so far. One of an old Laptop and my relatively new WD Essential that fell off the table.

I suggest that you just do your backups and keep using it.

I've learned that I never touch a running system, because last time I did, I rma-ed three mainboards...

Hope that helps a little.

Sayonara!