• Patient-Tech@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Lucky they weren’t Seagate’s. They were impacted hard by the Floods those years. That said, I used to be a WD fanboy since HD space was $1/1MB. I don’t think there’s as much difference between them anymore.

  • Jonofmac@alien.topOPB
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been carrying along these 3TB WD reds for many years now. I finally transitioned my prod dataset off of them earlier this year but wanted to see how long they’ll go. 3 drives in a temp dataset (Linux isos) keep going like the Energizer bunny. Who else has some ridiculously long PoH droves still in service?

    My prod data is in a raid Z2 array and has 2x off-site backups done nightly. The 3TBs are used in low risk things like temp data storage or my NVR.

  • SH0CK3RZ@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    My wd reds are doing strong also but 2 of them failed in 5y sadly non stop running

  • Perfect_Sir4820@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    My oldest is a Toshiba 4tb with about 60k PoH, no errors and still runs cool. The plan was to replace it with a larger disk when it died but it just refuses to.

  • bufandatl@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I got one HGST with now almost 11 years. And some WD Reds with 9 to 10 years. They run now in a Helios 64 which I use to store DVD and BluRay backups before they get tagged correctly and moved to my Plex storage pool.