Thread 106215002

be honest, /g/, how much time left does my drive have before it (gulps) dies? What a sad thing to see a terabyte dying. How do reallocated sectors even begin? How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

>>106215002 (OP)
Usually 2-4 months, performance will drop down to a few KB/s in its final week.

>>106215002 (OP)
why are you still using mechanical HDD?

>>106215180
you are probably going to shit on me, but I trust them for longer term use than SSDs. Don't they die quicker?

>>106215180
OP knows a thing or two about a thing or two.

>>106215234
Who knows solid drives are flimsy af and modern pc conditions are fire prone

>>106215002 (OP)
depends if it keeps finding more bad sectors. I have a drive that got some bad sectors years ago and it never got any more.
>>106215234
only had one SSD die and it was entirely without warning. They're good as boot drives but important files should always be backed up to HDD

It can last a while, but I recommend you buy something new soon, at least on Black Friday or something. I had a Hard Drive that started failing far later than yours did and it lasted quite for well over a year. It probably still runs, I just don't use it anymore.
>>106215234
Last time I checked, no. You should only get a Hard Drive for either cold storage or you just need to min/max gb/$. 2 TB NVMe drives have been affordable for a while now.

>>106215234
SSDs die in the same way literally anything else can die
It could die tomorrow or stand till the end of time.
It's the nature of literally any electronic device, even HDDs can suffer because ultimately there is a PCB with a CPU, RAM, head controller, etc.

It's never materialized that SSDs die more often than HDDs beyond anecdotals. There is more evidence to the contrary from studies at Google and Microsoft.

>>106215523
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>>106215426
I genuinely appreciate the responses. I was prepared to get my shit kicked in but it was rather wholesome. I appreciate the info.

>>106215611
you're welcome fren
if only every thread could be so simple and straightforward, right?
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>>106215002 (OP)

maybe 30k hours if not go worse

>>106215002 (OP)
Reallocated sectors don't seem to indicate any imminent failure, at least not in my experience. I've two WD greens that are >15 years old and have had quite a few reallocated sectors for years now and they're fine. If you have important data, you should make sure that you have ways of verifying it's not corrupted, but that always applies. I think that several bad metrics occuring at the same time, like error rates, would be a cause for alarm.

>>106215002 (OP)
A couple hours at best

>>106217652
a few seconds*

>>106215002 (OP)
>Power on counts 1996
>Power on hours 9132
Don't spin down your drives that often mate

>>106215002 (OP)
It says hardware ecc recovered, can you swap port and cable?

>>106216359
Eh, it depends
In my experience anything with reallocated sectors was more of a mechanical issue with the drive, or the surface defect was grown so bad the drive couldn't reallocate correctly.
You'd have a handful of bad or even pending sectors but the drive would lock up at certain areas of the drive.

Out of the 5 drives that have given me trouble, only one seems to have handled reallocation correctly but its hard to say because its a SAS drive with a vague "Elements in grown defect list" counter. It started going up before stopping at 147, already had a replacement when it was at ~50. Drive still seems to work fine but that's a first for me.

>>106218046
Okay.

>>106215180
It's cost-effective storage.

>>106215234
They don't.
I don't know about SSDs, but with HDDs, you are gambling past the ten year mark. The drive may suddenly fail or soon start failing, or it could last a few more years, it is unpredictable. Don't keep HDDs past 10 years, move your data to a newer drive before.