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“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDs (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nulluser@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

If WD expects its drives to fail after 3 years, then WD is manufacturing shoddy products and it's time to change vendors.

Which is a real shame, because WD was until recently the gold standard of disk drive reliability. To my recollection, I've never seen a WD drive fail.

I've got a machine whose (Seagate, not WD) drives have been powered on for 14 years and they still aren't complaining. They're about to, though—their SMART reports only 1% service life left!

[–] HighPriestOfALowCult@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This desktop right here (running a couple of ZFS pools) has drives with more than 3 years on it...

$ for d in $(find /dev/sd[a-z]); do sudo smartctl --all --json $d| jq -c '[.model_name,(.power_on_time?.hours?/8760)]' ; done
["CT1000MX500SSD1",2.2034246575342467]
["WDC WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0",0.3791095890410959]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",4.040639269406393]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]
["WDC WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0",3.359246575342466]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]

runs like a top (better not jinx myself).

[–] azertyfun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, it's basically the best environment for them. Presumably relatively few writes compared to the uptime, in a case with few vibrations (!), very few power cycles (!!!). Basically all it does is spin on a highly precise bearing.

Anyway drive lisepans only matter for cost projections, when it comes to data integrity you should ALWAYS assume that a drive ia about to fail. Because sometimes it fails after 2 years and sometimes it runs for 20, that's just the luck of the draw.

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