Thread 106237160

My HDD of 8 years finally died when I booted my PC after going out on a vacation.

I already had most of my things backed up but it kinda sucks to see it go.

It is a bit. I recently had to bury a Seagate I'd had spinning for about 7 years. It was only a 4TB Crappacuda (one of their first SMR ones, no less), and every single byte was backed up somewhere else - but still.

>>106237160 (OP)
My oldest one is 12 years old and has almost 3 years of runtime
I'm not afraid

>>106237160 (OP)
Can we get a teardown thread, please?

>>106237485
I have a hard drive from 1997 that still works. I also have a hard drive with over 7 years of continuous run time, and it doesn't have a single SMART error.

>>106237676
>I have a hard drive from 1997 that still works.
You're lyin.

>>106237632
>data mining
if you do it censor the platters

>>106237160 (OP)
Each of my 1TB WD Black still work with no probs after 15 years of daily continuous use.

>>106237875
cute, you live in a spy movie set in the 1920s

>>106237855
>yt (where you get all of your opinions of)
>has retroomer channels featuring 20/30/40yo hdds still spinning
>b-but ur lying
Sure anon. Sure.
Just to pick on you, I'll regale you with the demise of my 10GB Seagate from 1999.
I did a three-pass dban and chucked it, because even though it worked absolute perfectly, it was too small, slow, and IDE, to do anything remotely useful with it.
Kinda like you, I imagine.

My HDD of 14 years died yesterday. I checked it with badblocks, it started throwing errors and eventually disconnected.
What's up with dying HDDs lately? Are glowies sending signals from satellites to disrupt hardware?
There was another thread a few days ago like this.

>>106237967
Damn bro, no need to get so defensive. Get that sand out of your pussy.

>>106237160 (OP)
>my 15 year old vaio still running
feels man im waiting to my laptop to finally die

>>106238028
mine is 20yo and running fine, old hardware is just superior

>>106237963
and you talk like a faggot

>>106238095
even the chink dogshit was longer lasting. NPCs really ruined every product by voooting for consumerism and planned obsolescence

>>106237160 (OP)
>>106238009
Let me guess, Seagate?

>>106238367
Yeah, Seagate Barracuda.

>>106238315
No it fucking wasn't
>t. bought chinkshit off dealextreme back in the day
The existence of surviorship bias does not make for good hardware.

In 20 years I have no HDD die on me and only stopped using them because they got too small

>>106238499
as expected from a catfag.

>>106238367
Hitachi

>>106238367
The last drive I had pack it in was a WD.
Come to think of it, the one before that was a WD, too.
It's rather odd, because I don't have a lot of WDs - that's two out of three (I have a Red still humming away happily in the JBOD).

>>106237963
the future is now old man

This is why I only use Seagate drives to store porn.

>>106237160 (OP)
>downloaded CrystalDiskInfo earlier this year after building a new system
>it now has an anime girl theme
Hmmm okay, quirky japanese, I can live with this
>open it up again after reading this thread
>it's got a fucking startup voiceline for her that blasted my eardrums with "THERE'S NO PROBLEM WITH YOUR DRIVE... SASUGA!!!" in japanese at maximum volume
>nearly fell out of my fucking chair
>if you click on her there's even more voicelines
What the fuck Japan I just wanted to check my HDD health

>>106238870
I heard the anime version of crystaldisk damages hard drives look it up.

>>106238870
>it now has an anime girl theme
Uh, no.
There's a reason why one download is 2MB, and the other is 400MB.

>>106237963
you are glowing so hard

>>106237855
Well, I can't be bothered to dig out an old computer that still has an SCSI-2 HBA, but I can assure you that it worked when I last used it a few years ago.

>>106238870
You have to intentionally download the anime crystaldiskinfo thoughbeit.

>bought a WD 1TB HDD in 2013
>still works with continuous use
>my dad also dropped it kek

>>106237160 (OP)
What brand? My WD Elements only lasted 4 years.

>>106237160 (OP)
how do I unsubscribe from your blog?

>>106239183
External drives are deliberately made from marginal hardware. The logic being that you don't need consistent and blazing performance, they have shorter warranties, and you're going to have a butterfingers moment eventually and kill the thing anyway.
They also tend to have shitty plastic cases that don't promote cool running, and USB<->SATA interfaces are legendarily failure-prone - I ate literally 10 of them in four years once.
All of this allows them to be cheaper (hence why shucking is a thing) - but as you've learned the hard way, at a fairly unpredictable reliability hit.

>>106237875
I once broke one of those, had no idea it would shatter in one millions pieces, my hand was all bloody after it

>>106237160 (OP)
My 8 y/o wd blue is still factory new (with some dust)

i have an old samsung 1tb that's like a treasure trove of all the data i've made and acquired from the 90s to like 2015. I'm afraid to try to hook it up

>>106239280
I highlighted it for you you son of a bitch

Man western digital sucks so much fucking ass really? Another one dying. The fuck man the fuck.
I don't even remember what I have on this drive

my drive have 63000 hours

>>106237160 (OP)

maybe check power and data connectors

>>106239322
I bought a new one last month and it's already freezing my laptop. Apparently, running portable software from it is too much for the drive. I want to die.
>Type "I want to die"
>Cloudflare before the captcha
Awww, cute you.

>>106237160 (OP)
give him a good send off :)