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.
Had 2 wd red 3tb in my qnap 1 died 1 month before warranty end (2yr) second died 2 month later. Never again wd…
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.
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.
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 wd reds are doing strong also but 2 of them failed in 5y sadly non stop running