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.
Same here. I have I think 3x3tb wd red in my UnRAID setup. About to add a second parity drive as I’m getting paranoid bc some of my array drives are pretty aged. All of which are wd. Adding 6TB WD Gold Parity drive next.
Had 2 wd red 3tb in my qnap 1 died 1 month before warranty end (2yr) second died 2 month later. Never again wd…
My wd reds are doing strong also but 2 of them failed in 5y sadly non stop running
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.
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.
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.