Is this really true? I just bought Seagate Expansion Portable external hard drive with 2TB space for 99€ like a week ago to get some more space and you're telling me that after 3-5 years i have to buy a new one?
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Is this really true?
I still have a 2TB drive from 2016 working.
Water is wet. Anything with moving parts eventually fails.
Well yeah obviously, i don't expect anything to last forever but hard drive failing after 3-5 years?
its bullshit
i have 5 wd 4tb hdds, going on 10 years, all in perfect running order
i have a quantum fireball 30gb ide hdd that is still trucking after 25 years
I've never had one fail on me yet
I have 3 hard drives. HDD from 2015. Refurbished HDD from 2018 (makes a LOT of noise but stills works). SSD from 2019. They all take heavy damage from installing/uninstalling things. IDK what the lifetime of a hard drive is but I don't think 5 years is it chief.
I have a 1tb WD from 2014 that's still trucking
This meme was probably made by someone who had one shitty bad luck experience with a hard drive and never let it go. Don't worry about it.
I have some old external harddrives I've been using since 2008, out of the five two of them have crapped out.
>Is this really true?
no, they can last up to 10 years or more, it depends how much you put them to work
You make backups every other year to avoid disaster either way
I got mine in 2019. I was wondering why I was having disk issues.
What kind of disk issues we talking about, anon?
Slow speeds.
I have been using my external one from 2015 just fine. I used it 5 days ago, even.
with external hard drives, it's usually the external port that dies
you'll find that 90% of "defect hdds" work flawlessly if you insert them directly through sata port
That's a really low estimate which is only accurate for shitty/low end drives that see continuous use.
>external
you're more likely to accidentally damage it than wear it out.
as , if it stops working randomly, you'll most likely be able to extract the drive from the shell and plug it with a different adapter
>on average
probably because every hard drive either lasts for 5 days before shitting itself or lives past 200 years
It's misleading, they follow a bath tub curve
Seagates last a year or two tops. WD lasts fricking forever
yeah seagates are trash never buy from that fricking company
>be me, a moron
>love my seasonic psu
>see a Seagate hdd
>buy it because my pea brain can't tell the difference
>fails after 1.5 years
Curse my stupidity
>WD
Western Digital? I'm moronic, never heard of that one.
I bought a Seagate and WD HDD in 2011 with 1-2 months between. The deathmatch is still ongoing.
i have an ancient "portable" hard drive (has to be plugged in to an outlet) from about 2005 that still works
maybe if you're using them as your primary drive, hard drives are best for long term storage that isn't accessed often
>Seagate
Maybe
i flipped my pc upside down last year and killed my wd black i got in 2014 :(. it was working great until then
have a couple of them 2tb WD ones. bought 2 of them few years ago cant remember exactly maybe 2 years ago or so. what exactly causes problems with HDD? saw is it this easy to frick them up?
hard drives are basically a bunch of layered disks, with a reader all housed in those little boxes. So it's a lot of moving parts combined with the fact that the actual disk is very easy to damage.
My HDD lasted 12 years under constant use. But I guess they don't make things like they used to with everything being produced in china now.
>Seagate
Well, it'll last maybe a couple of months.
No. Hard drives work on a pretty consistent bathtub curve. HDDs samples from 2013-15 range are routinely showing 80% working rates while nearing 10 years of age.
My 9 year old HD just died earlier this year and it was nothing special or expensive but I worked it non stop in all those years.
I'm calling bullshit, just don't by bargain bin chinese shit.
2010 drive still working fine. I just replaced it for an SSD just because it would be faster.
It all depends on the writing speed and how much is written.
No way. Maybe he's talking about server hard drives that are being used 24/7
Seagate drives have very short life expectancy.
Western Digital can last fricking FOREVER. I still have an elderly small drive that's working, and i'm mostly interested in how long that little old man can hold out. GODDAMN he's a trooper.
I have a working hard drive from 30 years ago, how fricking cheap are they making them now? Sounds fricking ridiculous.
I have a 500gb seagate hdd from 2009. I keep my porn on it
So what if I have a backup external hdd that basically collects dust. Will it also die in 10 years time from no use except biannual backups?
Without being in use, they shouldn't degrade unless the moving parts were made with shit rubber or something like that.
However, HDDs store data with with magnetic fields, and those will eventually discharge into ambient air regardless of how suitable the enclosure is.
So unless you can somehow store them in a complete vacuum they will eventually lose data, low estimates I find online say 3-5 years. Just plugging power into the drive for a few minutes every year or so should be enough to keep the data safe.
If you are looking for a super long term solution that precludes even that brief yearly maintenance you should look into things like tape drives.
My seagate from 2007 still works
I've got the small HDD from my netbook of 10+ years ago just hanging in my pooter, not even properly mounted, and it's still going strong.
Seagate in general has a shit life. I think from experience all of my failed drives have been seagates. I have really old WD drives that still work fine.
>tfw my current hard drive is going on 5 years now
I'm sweatin homie
My hard drive from 2013 just broke last month
It was a wd blue I think
I've bought close to 30 hard drives in the last 15 years. Different brands, models, capacities, etc.
Some are over 10 years old and working without issue, with 10s of terabytes of writes across their lives.
Some died after using them once and sitting in storage for 2 months.
It's just a given that any drive can fail at any time at not fault of the user, they're extremely unreliable. The best practice is to just buy whatever gives the most GB/$, have backups and keep track of warranty periods.
>not specifying if it's uptime or real time
Meaningless. But also false either way.
>boot up pc
>oldest harddrive: "BRRRTBRBRBRTRTRTBRBTRTBRBTRBRTBTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
>then silence once its fully booted
I have harddrives from the 90s that still work.
All of my HDDs have lasted 10+ years, except the one that was bricked out the box.