What kind of life are people getting out of the ST5000LM000
The only real answer is somewhere between DOA and decades. And that any storage device/media can fail at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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I'm aware that Seagate sux, but apparently WD's 2.5" externals have the USB controller built into the drive, so they cannot be shucked.
As for your WD sux comment, "I reject your reality and substitute my own", I've got a WD drive in my server at over 98,000 POH and Hard Disk Sentinel reports it as "perfect health."
Also, you forgot Fujitsu.
Not only WD, but Toshiba portables have the USB integrated into the mainboard also. Only Seagate portables are regular SATA drives with a detachable interface.
The only hard drive manufacturers left are Seagate, WD and Toshiba.
Toshiba bought out Fujitsu. Seagate bought out Maxtor and the majority of others.
I uses these in my home server, solely because you can fit tow of them sideways into a single 3.5" bay if you use right-angle power connectors. I screw them down to a piece of stiff plastic sheet and then use Velcro to hold that down. I run Proxmox and put them in a ZFS mirror. My VMs and containers run off a small NVMe or mirroed SSDs in the replication server.
That being said, these things work fine for a home file/backup server and don't use much power. Don't expect much more out of them and use solid state storage for your hot data.
I'm not sure what you're expecting, the 2.5" drives are generally stuck in the past and underdeveloped, and all the large ones (and even the small-ish ones if they aren't old) are SMR, and their SMR is more perverse than the usual (or they generally just lack oomph and would crunch much longer and worse than their bigger cousins) and you want to use them with ZFS, and they've been already used a lot, and out of warranty.
Like the song says "I fought tougher men but I really can't remember when", it might be possible to be worse but I can't remember how (except maybe for the disks already throwing out errors).
Mine work well as external drives. Keep in mind that according to the datasheet these are not designed for 24/7 runtime, people who tried that had failures
Speed isn't much of a concern as read/write will be limited to my internet connection.
They've apparently been running near 24/7 as they are only about 960 days old but have 833 days of runtime.
That being said, they will be in a zfs mirror and the data is not critical.
I purchased them from Costco. I had to return them after 2 years due to failure. Careful with data stored on those drives.
The ones that I have used to connect media to my nvidia shield have worked fine, but the ones that I used inside laptops have all thrown errors and died.
Ebay? I hope you have paid PayPal. With those screenshots you should be able to receive a refund.
I received a partial refund (enough that I'm willing to 'risk' using the drives)