I have some ~20 WD Red disks that I shucked out of Western Digital external drive enclosures back in 2016 that are still going strong. Perhaps suspiciously so, not a single drive has had a reallocated sector, let alone an outright failure.
I half expect these drives to outlive my children.
Matt Hamilton /
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2025-04-30 13:17:02
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