>>106475440
not OP, but I've never had a HDD fail within 7 years of use. My last failed after around 9 years of use, including one getting absolutely hammered for torrenting.
>>106475469
One external Seagate failed, now it connects and freezes
One internal Western digital 80GB from 2008 got so slow it was unusable
Another WD internal simply dropped dead after becoming slow, ran all the chkdsk commands made it external and now it connects but freezes, disconnects
>>106475064 (OP)
did you zero it before using?
idk how common it is these days but in the past hdds used to come with uninitialized sectors and any attempt to read it before writing to it threw checksum error and marked sector as pending.
you absolutely had to do long format or zero it with victoria or badblocks or whatever your os supports.
kek, I just tested my 15 year old Samsung HJ103SJs, and all are still fine after 10 years of regular use and 5 years of sitting in my draw. Also have an 11 year old WD Green drive that's fine bu t wasn't used so much.
Anons why are you still using HDDs? I get if it's for nostalgia sake, I have an old drive from ~2010 that still works. But after having it in my modern build for even a minute, it was so loud that it had to go. Plus it's slow af. This isn't the 90s anymore, so unless you are actually dirt poor in the third world using scavenged computer parts, why are you still using a HDD?
