Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years even if nothing’s wrong

Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by willis936 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:33AM (#36417160)

I have had a dozen hard drives and nearly half of them failed within 5 years. I would not consider hard drives safe for a decade of use. SSDs are likely much better.

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by mistrial9 on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:29AM (#36418897)

opposite experience here.. set the sleep to a reasonable value, keep the temperatures and power stable, and the better quality spinning disks (7200rpm) are great. I have had three SSDs fail without warning in the same time period, supposedly better quality SSDs.

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by xhkkffbf on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:23PM (#36424799)

Me too. Flash is a great technology, but it tends to forget things, especially if there's no power applied to it.

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by willis936 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @06:39AM (#36430171)

That's fine, but online MTBF is much shorter for hard drives than flash. If you don't use your computers then hard drives make for better cold storage.

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by hulitu on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @02:46PM (#36422617)

I have drives from 2008 and 2011 which are still going fine.(WD black, and Samsung)

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