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Author: | koli [ Wed Jan 21, 2015 10:25 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Hard disk reliability | |||||||||
Backup provider Backblaze published its findings for the tens of thousands of disks that it operated
Interesting read. Re Barracudas: I have a 7200.10 500gb model that is 7.5y old, I estimate that it ran for 11,000 hours in its lifetime. I really need to start thinking about retiring it, maybe use it as a backup drive that I only connect once a month. |
Author: | big_D [ Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:36 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hard disk reliability |
Not really a good idea. If you are going to retire it, retire it. If it has been running constantly for years, then turning it off now and not using it for long periods will probably see excessive bearing wear and the drive seazing. |
Author: | jonbwfc [ Thu Jan 22, 2015 9:39 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hard disk reliability |
'seizing'? We've got as LOT of drives here in various disk arrays - I mean.. definitely several hundred, possibly verging on 1000. All sorts, all brands. It's pretty much been my experience that once they have any sort of problem at all, it's a hiding to nothing to keep them. Especially given the price of consumer drives of reasonable capacity now, they're effectively consumables. |
Author: | big_D [ Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:44 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hard disk reliability |
My bad, to much writing in German and not enough coffee! |
Author: | l3v1ck [ Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:38 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hard disk reliability |
The only hard drives I've ever had issues with were Fujitsu drives. Years ago at work we had two 20GB models fail within three days. As chance would have it, I had the same model in my PC at home. It failed six months later. |
Author: | koli [ Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:29 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Hard disk reliability |
Another report on reliability: HGST hard disks still super reliable WD REDs not doing very well there, Seagates are better than others if you do SMART tests as they are good at giving a warning before they fail. |
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