my western digital green 2 TB hdd has 9k hours can i trust it anymore ?

[Nancy the Girl]

according to SMART everything is ok with the drive

no bad sectors

but because it has 9k hours can I still trust it to store my data on it in my desktop ?

[Lurick]

I've got drives with over 22K hours on them still running strong.

If SMART says everything is good then it's still pretty good and can go for a long time still.

[Jade]

Yep. A drive can go bad/start to go bad as soon as even one minute of powered time; chances are it won't, but it can. Just check the SMART status every month or two and you should be fine.

 

Like Lurick, I've got drives with tens of thousands of hours on them, including a cheap laptop drive from many years ago and a WD Blue from 2014.

[FrowningHippo]

Well it has seen some life. But I doubt it would go haywire just like that. More important is that the amount of read/write the drive has had to sustain. You will notice when the drive starts failing. For example acces times increase or performance drops happen.

[PineyCreek]

You're fine. Always have a backup anyway.  It's just good practice.

[AshleyAshes]

Allow me to share my 2TB Seagate Green drive with 64000 hours on it or 7.38 years.

 

[seagate_surfer]

On 7/29/2017 at 5:40 AM, AshleyAshes said:

Allow me to share my 2TB Seagate Green drive with 64000 hours on it or 7.38 years.

Wow, that's AWESOME! 

Thank you for posting this - usually things get biased pretty often online because people obviously tend to post if a drive fails or goes bad...

 

@Nancy the Girl

We definitely recommend to not throw out drives if you do not see any weird behavior or hear anything unusual (like clicking sounds). As mentioned here, we would regularly keep an eye on the drive and run SMART reports and of course ALWAYS have backups of your important data (online and/or offline).

 

Thanks for reading!

[AshleyAshes]

29 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

Wow, that's AWESOME! 

Thank you for posting this - usually things get biased pretty often online because people obviously tend to post if a drive fails or goes bad...

This drive has an identical sibbling, bought 6 months later, but it was deployed in a lesser used machine, so it's only at 5.5 years or so.

That said, I had two 3TB Seagate Greens and both of those blew up once they reached about 18 months.  But yeah both of my 2TB Seagate Greens have shown remarkable service lives.