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HDD from 2012, bad idea?
Hey,
I needed a Disk Upgrade since Steam Sale again... and my disks getting full.
So I ordered a 2TB HGST for 58Gyros, sold as NEW, it has 0 Hours but, it makes kinda a noise and was produced in 2012. Its even a ENTERPRISE DRIVE, prem.
Well, I have some drives from 2011, there noise is even worse than that. So should I be worried?
Actually I am pretty sure these drives from 2011 are singing KILL ME, but that drive is far away from this but the noise... makes me cringe.
Thanks, Neoon.
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On some drives SMART data can be erased, but by doing that you would also erase all bad block information.
Try running dd on the drive and see if it fails/hangs.
That 2TB Hitachi is probably on their old but proven 5-platter design, they can produce some noise, vibration and heat up a bit. But they are tank-grade reliable, if SMART values right now are good, you can be sure it will work without any issues for many many years.
I have 4 hard drives in my current gaming rig that are all over 5 years old and still running 24/7 (I only reboot/turn off when there's a Windows upgrade that needs it) with no issues. Hard drives can last for quite a long time.
Those aren't the fastest or quietest drives but should last quite some time.
speed often come at the cost of silence.
Enterprise grade disks are not meant to let you sleep on the desk, they arent built with your auditory comfort in mind. Performance and endurance are the key.
I have a Hitachi laptop hard drive, and it's been running for almost three years without any problems.
0 Hours means nothing. Give me 30 seconds I can make any recent Seagate hard drive showing 0 hours and 0 power cycles. Just a command through TTL cable.
It should be easy for other vendors as well.
Well, 6 Hours Testing, nothing, dang it.
Gonna fill it with 2TB of data, lets see if its starts to cry.
I need to detect if these HDD had a SMART reset, is there any way?
Who needs Hitachi?
Wanna see real reliability? Here is my 1,5TB Seagate:
As far as I'm concerned a 4 year old drive is brand spanking new. I have some WD and Seagate Ultra ATA drives still in service from early last decade. Accessing the data is infrequent, but they have been powered on for YEARS.
I have one of that model. And apparently we are lucky, I read these ones have a high failure rate.
Mine has a couple of bad sectors already, but still working fine.
I ship that HDD back, at least they agreed now.
Time to get a NEW 1TB HDD for the same price.
So were you just uncomfortable about the 2012 age or did you find something that indicated there had been some deception?
Eh, keep that old thing, I guess still a bad idea..