| Msg # |
User |
Message |
Date |
1
|
pat362 (0)
|
I have three and the first one is easily a couple of years old. The second one I dropped and sort of killed it when it was already a year old so hard to tell how long it would have worked. My last one is under 6 months old but no complain up to now. Did you by chance look at the review of your drive to see if there were some really negative ones?
|
06-12-16 08:19am
Reply To Message
|
2
|
tangub (0)
|
I've never had an external drive break down yet. I have two Western Digital Elements 3 TB drives, one is 3 years old the other 5 years old and both still going strong. I also have a couple of Iomega drives 1TB and 1.5TB that are even older but not currently being used, they are just stored in a box holding back ups of valuable archives.
|
06-12-16 09:02am
Reply To Message
|
3
|
LPee23 (0)
|
What type of Seagate drive were they? Some Seagate drives such as the 1Tb and 1.5Tb Barracuda had high failure rates in testing while others, such as their 4Tb drives, performed very well in this test by Backblaze:
www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-reliable-...ording-to-backblaze/
|
06-12-16 03:50pm
Reply To Message
|
4
|
careylowell (0)
|
REPLY TO #1 - pat362 :
At the time of purchase I saw no 'Wall-E has trashed better drives' comments. One or two star reviews referred only to the price vs the competitors.
|
06-12-16 04:15pm
Reply To Message
|
5
|
careylowell (0)
|
REPLY TO #3 - LPee23 :
Yeah, they're each a 1Tb Barracuda.
|
06-12-16 04:16pm
Reply To Message
|
6
|
LPee23 (0)
|
REPLY TO #5 - careylowell :
That drive was astoundingly bad. Backblaze published data on those drives in 2015. In their first year in service, 2013, their failure rate was 129%. That failure rate is calculated as a mean value, they did not publish the associated confidence interval, so that is why it is higher than 100%. Basically, in the harsh conditions of frequent I/O and temperature in which Backblaze studied those drives, they were failing more frequently than once per year.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv...reliability-q3-2015/
|
06-12-16 05:37pm
Reply To Message
|
7
|
Drooler (Disabled)
|
Had a Seagate boot drive with the box I bought from Dell 4 years ago. It only lasted a couple of years. (Insert lengthy narrative about all the hassles it caused.)
Now all six of my drives are Western Digital, ranging in age from 5 years or so to 3 months. None has yet to fail.
|
06-13-16 06:31am
Reply To Message
|
8
|
pinkerton (0)
|
I used to use Seagate drives but when the developed faults after a few years, I replaced them with Samsung or Hitachi drives which have been going strong for about 4 years so far. Question: do you have your external hard drives always powered on and plugged into your PC? That would shorten the life of the drives.
|
06-13-16 08:22am
Reply To Message
|
9
|
RagingBuddhist (Disabled)
|
I'm convinced that heat is what kills external drives so much sooner than internals. That's why I always put a computer fan on the vents in the enclosure or blowing across the drives when using the dock.
|
06-13-16 07:26pm
Reply To Message
|
10
|
LPee23 (0)
|
REPLY TO #9 - RagingBuddhist :
Yeah, I think if you crack open the case of an external and cool it with a fan, it will prolong their life on average. I remember how hot mine used to get. Now they stay cool in my 8-bay dual fan enclosure.
|
06-15-16 05:54pm
Reply To Message
|
11
|
Homegirl (Disabled)
|
I have never had a problem with an external hard drive.
|
05-23-20 08:19am
Reply To Message
|
