As title says… has been a games hard drive all its life, until now. Model number is ST1000DM003, the HDD's that were part of Seagate's issues with high failure rates and incredibly short life span, after finding that out years ago, I wanted to see how long this drive would actually live for, it still works alright, no errors yet, or lose of information that I can tell, it just makes lots of ticking noises now during use so it is dying slowly.
The Little HDD that could.
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All of my Seagate Barracudas exploded after less than 3 years and for some reason I bought 3 of them before learning my lesson
I have the same model that’s about 10.5 years old and has been running 24/7 for the majority of the time, the only oddity is that the power on hours rolled over a couple months back.
all of my drives from the last decades are either Seagates or Toshibas, and they are pretty solid (mainly bought NAS drives)
11 years was an achievement tbh, most drives i ran lasts about 5 years before the SMART codes yells at me or just making funny noises.
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I have 2 of the same ones that were functioning properly running win10, and then after the 11 upgrade, they only worked for a few days. Now my pc won’t recognize them. When I power them with SATA power they don’t even feel like they’re running anymore 🙁 idk what’s wrong
i found the 2tb model of this drive that had been powered on 24/7 and restarted every single day for 12 years, still works fine to this day but im pretty cautious with what i put on it
And TIL my country produce(d?) hard disk drives.
I had a WD 2TB Green drive with 94,000 power on hours I planned on retiring today, it still works fine, but I am out of space in my server for it. However, Amazon sent me a 10TB drive instead of a 22TB drive I ordered so it gets a stay of execution for now.
Always sad to say farewell, and 11 years of use is a miracle.
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Keep it in service, you must! Don’t let it die. 😭
My old 1tb SSHD Firecuda went out in less than 2 months. Brand new, too, and once it started clicking, it was over. I didn’t even have time to get any files out of it and had multiple games installed, too. I currently have the 4tb SSD Firecuda, and it has been working like a charm. But I dont trust their HDD/SSHD
Have a similar kind of story with my 180 GB Seagate drive.
It was in regular daily use from 2009 to 2021 and saw a bit more use in 2024 for some Windows XP and 7 shenanigans. Tho I do feel like it has slowed down a good bit and it’s doing the ticking.
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