We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?
Of all the drives I've ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others...this is the only one I've had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?
This one is currently a paperweight
I installed cctv DVRs and NVRs for 15 years featuring hard drives from multiple manufacturers.
Out of hundreds, a single WD drive has failed (a 4tb WD red that spun for 7 years before failure) and nearly every of multiple dozens of Seagate drives failed. The NVRs/DVRs that I used these Seagate 3tb drives in all failed within 12 months of deployment and cost our company tens of thousands of dollars in service calls to replace them, all at our own cost due to being in the warranty period.
Never again. WD for life.