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 bought 12 of these back in 2012 for my first RAID-based NAS. Had 7 of them fail with bad sectors within 6 months, usually one every 4-ish weeks. All warranty replacement drives came with 6-month warranties, so I lost out on the remaining 2+ years of the original warranties.
In 2013 I upgraded to 4TB WD Reds and never had a single problem for nearly 6 years until I upgraded to larger drives.