I keep hearing stories about failed hard drives on /g/ but I've

>>57269689
Who dis

I have a ten year old HDD that was sittin' in a consumer Dell model that didn't work when I fired it up recently. I doubt my external that's about as old will work when I give it a shot.

Had a 1TB WD Mybook that I bought in 2008 that I dropped multiple times work after I removed the enclosure and installed it as an internal HDD. Almost ten years old and years of power-on hours and still working. Feels good man.

The only time I ever had a drive fail on me was an external that I dropped from a great height.

It sort of worked for the following week although it sounded like it was playing dubstep.

>>57269816
jazzma kendrick

use google reverse image search before asking next time

>>57269689
Never had a failed hdd but plenty of micro d's, fucking hate sd cards

What's with the trend of posting hot black chicks? Not complaining btw, just intedesting

most of mine last 10+ years
some fail within 2 years

they're all treated the same, used the same, exist in the same environments

the precision of a hard drive's components is amazing
it's a wonder they don't fail more than they do

>>57269880
That's odd.

I've still got an almost 10 year old 500gb in my desktop right now and it's working fine. It's a samsung.

>>57269689
nigger

>>57269981
>jazzma kendrick
haha, that's the niggest name someone can have

>>57269689
You haven't been alive or into computers long enough.

>>57269689
Actual work

>>57270340
Roughly 19 years, give or take one year.

>>57269689
I had a laptop when I was in my early teens, it had a seagate 2.5" 80gb ide. It failed without warning taking all of my childhood files with it, including pictures from trips and shit.
only drive thats ever failed on me, wd 4 lyfe

the only hard rive failure i had was a samsung 1TB f3, and that was because the delivery goon couldn't wait 10 extra seconds for me to come to the door and dropped it through my mail slot. I sent it back filled with brazilian fart porn

>>57270586
should add it worked, but clicked like fucking crazy when reading/writing

>>57270586
>I sent it back filled with brazilion fart porn
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>57269689
Drives from, e.g. WD have a 5% failure rate over data center use over three years. So if you have an external drive that's not being used that much then it's likely to last a lot longer. You get a shitty drive not for DC usage. But you're not using it nearly as much.

But there is a % of drives that will fail because they are mechanical units and there will always be an end of life. You've been lucky if you didn't back up your data, etc.

>>57269689
Seagate drives have had a historically high failure rate. 2016 seems to be ok for them, but I wouldn't risk it. WD for home use; HGST for DC use.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/

i've bought a variety of brands over the years, 2.5" drives died on me often, WD and toshiba mainly. 750GB 2.5" seagate became my ps3 drive and is still going strong.
I've never lost a 3.5 drive through failure, only accidents and idiocy

I had 2 WD 3TB drives replaced after one got errors and the second developed noises after only a few months. Along with seagate's notorious 3TB drives I'm not trusting anything of that size anymore. Although my 1.5tb drive lasted years as a main OS drive along with two drops, but it finally gave up the ghost when I put it in an external enclosure,

The 500gb 2.5 drive I put in my tower lasted ~4 years being thrashed and probably still works today, I just replaced it with an ssd now. I just assume it's single platter drives which are most reliable these days.

The 7000 hour internal Toshiba drive on my laptop died about a month ago. My Hitachi drives still work wonderfully after 50,000 hours.

>>57269689
>some hyper autist /g/tard says not to buy a raptor 74gb in 2006 because 'its just guaranteed to fail'
>used daily in main machine until SSD's enter the market, replaced with a early 64gb SSD >SSD dies in 2 years
>raptor still passes SMART
>still in use as a scratch drive for your torrent box

the advice from this place has been retarded for a decade, anon

>>57271564
Agreed.

Still use my 300GB raptor in my HTPC. Boots up Solus in 7 seconds from pressing the button and much more reliable than any SSD

>>57270303

if you care enough about other people to hate a race then clearly your life sucks so you're looking for an outlet to make yourself feel better about yourself. work on yourself man, happiness is a great shell

>2 TB drives come out
/g/ says LMAO enjoy data loss, buy 1 TB

>3 TB drives come out
/g/ says LMAO enjoy data loss, buy 2 TB

>4 TB drives come out
/g/ says LMAO enjoy data loss, buy 3 TB

>>57269689
>I've never had one fail in my life.
Well hooray for you.

I've seen a disk fail once on me (it went from taking 30 seconds to boot the OS to a couple of hours, and various applications wouldn't start at all) and I was dead lucky as I had a full backup from a couple of days before. Hardly lost anything.

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>>57272933
>not laughing at yourself and others

>>57269689
I've had many drives fail (fuck Seagate) but I'm not underage so it's to be expected

>>57270003
Some kids noticed that posting hot black girls instead of anime girls gets on some people's nerves here and it became a trend. I'm torn on this meme. I fap to black chicks every day so yes, I've got the jungle fever bad but I like my /g/ filled with 2d waifus as it always was and so nigress-posting actually does get on my nerves.

>>57273880
nice advise I will do that in the future

I have an old 4GB Quantum Fireball that is still running in one of my old machines.

I've had newer HDDs die on me, most botably a Western Digital Caviar Black that lasted only 2 years, but this thing just keeps on going.