Seagate Barracuda Hdd 3.5

[Stephani Kapnick]

soi have finally found the answer to an age old question how long will a seagate barracuda 2TB last in a heavy use case with multiple reformat and raid rebuilds. answer is just under 4 years. which is not bad considering i have been really rough on the drive.

but it has finally gotten so many bad sectors that it can be found by windows but can not be formatted or used. ( disk does not have S.M.A.R.T so i can not link it) oddly enough my WD cavilair green 2TB HDD has out lasted almost every other drive that i have used in this system, it is now 5.5 years old and still kicking.

There has always been controversy regarding Backblaze's methodology thanks in no small part to a TweakTown article from awhile back: -backblaze-s-hdd-reliability-myth-the-real-story-covered/index.html

I tend to avoid spinning rust if I can at all help it - Although, an embarassing secret of mine is that my Fibre Channel SAN is full of 750GB Seagate drives. I'm expecting at least half of them to be stone dead... They do not bear well in server environments

Suddenly with no previous warning, my Win 8.1 desktop computer started to boot and gave the warning that my drive was in danger of imminent failure. Then, when it booted, the drive, my second internal HDD (D:/), had disappeared. This drive is only a couple years old and there had been no warning. I had run chkdsk and defragged in the past, with no problems.

Now, the drive does not power up at all. It does not appear on my Win 8.1 computer even under ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS DISK MANAGEMENT. I put it in my external Aluratek HDD Docking Enclosure and tried it on my laptop, and it does not respond at all to power up (I tried other drives, and they power up).

Besides taking the drive to a forensic expert and paying an arm and a leg for recovery, the best advice we can

give you here is; ensure that you have more than one backup of your data in the future.

Fortunately for me, before it actually died, I took it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy to replace it. They were able to clone the seagate to the Western Digital. I paid $149.00 for all the labor and 59.99+tax for the hard drive 12/7/2015. The Seagate is factory installed on my Dell Inspirion 3647 i5.

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