On 19 December 2015 04:05:25 CET, waben...@gmail.com wrote: >Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and >> some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I >> don't have to buy pacemakers. :/ > >It seems that many many years ago HDs were more reliable then today. >I have five 4GB IBM SCSI HDs and one 40GB Seagate IDE HD in my cupboard > >that I've used 24/7 for about 8 years. They were still intact when I >replaced them. >But its hardly surprising that a drive with a capacity of some TB has >a higher risk of failure than a drive with a capacity of 4GB or 40GB. > >Since about three years I'm using four 3TB WD red HDs as storage drives > >and I bought two more some months ago. No failures with all of these >drives so far. > >-- >Regards >wabe
I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years. Only had 1 failure (Smart complaining) in that time. I find that decent odds. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
