4 year old Seagate 1.5TB drive failing?

[Bubbleawsome]

Just happened. Still boots and stuff.

 

[razel]

Not failing. Good for 4 year old drive. Move along. If you worry, run a short SMART test.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Not failing. Good for 4 year old drive. Move along. If you worry, run a short SMART test.

It's too easy to fret about this sort of thing. Instead, you'll feel better if you can somehow buy a spare when you pick the drive, or with a later purchase you might have something ready for a bare-metal backup image that will successfully restore -- perhaps with a "repair" CD/DVD.

To feel better about the prospects of HW failure, you might try to test it non-destructively. As for picking the right backup, you'd have to remember when a problem began to emerge, and hope you have a backup that is a tad older.

I've kept drives running for six or more years before discarding them.

 

[dbcooper1]

Didn't these drives have some significant failures related to firmware? 7200.11 series I believe it was and the 1.5TB in particular.

 

[Elixer]

Just happened. Still boots and stuff.

Usually, that count will grow... so, backup, if you haven't done so, and relegate this one to a scratch drive, where you don't care that much about what is stored on it.

 

[skankinstein]

Didn't these drives have some significant failures related to firmware? 7200.11 series I believe it was and the 1.5TB in particular.

So right. But they are fixable. I've brought three back to life.

 

[Morbus]

Always back up your data.

Always.

Also, my 12 year old 320GB Seagate has ZERO reallocated sectors on upwards of 30k power-on hours. However, my one year old 1TB Seagate lists an outstanding 214 reallocated sectors. It's kind of weird, both of them. They're working fine, no problems whatsoever.

I learned not to give a damn: I just back up my data.

 

[tweakboy]

Im surprised it didnt die earlier. Seagate teamed up with Maxtor which is the cheapest hard drive you can get. Try a WDC Black gl

 

[tweakboy]

I went 55k on WDC and took out the hard drive as 320GB was too little.

 

[phis6]

It would still work fine but better to have back up for now and try running MHDD on that drive.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow it's incredible a 1.5TB Seagate made it that long. Those things used to drop like dead flies.