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red_slr said:
Amazon. I am getting about 2 years out of them. Really not "high quality"!!!
That's pretty unlucky, unless you're being sold fakes - not impossible on Amazon, depending on the seller.I have 8 WD Reds (3 & 4 TB drives) spread across 2 NAS enclosures, the youngest is maybe 6 years old. I have one reallocated sector on one drive. I'm certainly very happy with the reliability.
Must still be in warranty at that age aren't they?
All drives fail though, Backblaze out out stats on their own failure rates https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-fo... and most are very low single digits.
Better to presume any drive can fail and have redundancy/backups.
All drives fail though, Backblaze out out stats on their own failure rates https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-fo... and most are very low single digits.
Better to presume any drive can fail and have redundancy/backups.
Depends if you are happy to send your data back to WD....
In 25 years I have never had a HDD fail other than WD reds. I have been running my laptop hard drive daily for 8-10 hours per day, dropped it, been on planes etc and its coming up for 10 years old and no problem. Same with desktop pc.
Seems to me WD have a real problem.
In 25 years I have never had a HDD fail other than WD reds. I have been running my laptop hard drive daily for 8-10 hours per day, dropped it, been on planes etc and its coming up for 10 years old and no problem. Same with desktop pc.
Seems to me WD have a real problem.
We must have at least 2-3 hundred WD Red and Red Pros in various Synologies/QNAPS around the building. I have had a couple of 4TB Reds fail but no Pros yet. Pros are rated for 1000000 hours mtbf, although they are a bit more costly and noisier than standard Reds (although smallest is 4TB)
Edited by dogbucket on Tuesday 5th March 16:23
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