external hard drive is easy to die?

[heime2003]

it has been third time within 3 years for my WD and seagate drives to die completely. i havent mishandled them but i had a habit of using them into near full capacity. also all dead drives were 4TB model or higher. i wonder they would have lasted longer if i had left more space or just used small capacity drives(my 2TB model is still working fine)

[DoomsDay]

I have a 4TB disk from Seagate, bought from 2nd market, does its job,.

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I have 3 2 tb seagate externals and a 4tb one from seagate external and they work fine one problem is the one cord is bad.

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by heime2003:

it has been third time within 3 years for my WD and seagate drives to die completely. i havent mishandled them but i had a habit of using them into near full capacity. also all dead drives were 4TB model or higher. i wonder they would have lasted longer if i had left more space or just used small capacity drives(my 2TB model is still working fine)

They are overheating? Make sure they have airflow. Use something like Hwinfo to monitor the temp.

[Jackie Daytona]

Originally posted by heime2003:

it has been third time within 3 years for my WD and seagate drives to die completely. i havent mishandled them but i had a habit of using them into near full capacity. also all dead drives were 4TB model or higher. i wonder they would have lasted longer if i had left more space or just used small capacity drives(my 2TB model is still working fine)

My WD external died. 99% sure it was due to a power surge.

Funny thing, it will still work. As soon as I can figure out how to get it out of it's plastic case. It's no different from a hdd you'd place inside the computer. I'm certain the only thing broken is the USB interface.

[Garou]

My external drive is going for 6 years now. I also have a surge protector.

[aka]

Originally posted by heime2003:

it has been third time within 3 years for my WD and seagate drives to die completely. i havent mishandled them but i had a habit of using them into near full capacity. also all dead drives were 4TB model or higher. i wonder they would have lasted longer if i had left more space or just used small capacity drives(my 2TB model is still working fine)

If you want them to last 100 years, never turn them off.

Cooling lets ions enemize your shizl, recen the ho up just makes butter yo.

You're welcome

[apathy]

Seagate HDD are absolutely prone to failure. They are low quality.

If you use one, I strongly recommend you download CrystalDiskInfo to monitor and check on its status. If the results after a scan show anything less than "Good", bin it.

[Ghost Robertson]

I have a 1TB WD elements that plays my music all day long everyday, hasn't had a problem at all. (must have been years a go when i got it)

[Pierce Dalton]

This isn't normal, if you aren't mishandling them, then you're doing something else that is causing their death (and no, it's not leaving them almost full). The other alternative is: you're extremely unlucky, but that is difficult to believe.

[Tristin]

External drives as in 2.5" HDD in closure with USB or 3.5" HDD?

Either way, moving around disk is surely way to kill it faster, where it'd bump here and there. Not to mention often high temperature in use, unlike where internal HDD have fans in the PC case.

[ナルゴ]

I have a 1TB western digital external from 2011 that still works.
Meanwhile a 4TB shingled western digital external I bought died in a matter of months.

Bad batches happen. Which is why you should always have redundant back-up solutions for critical data.

Seagate is notorious for dying easily. Used to joke that it had the strongest encryption tech because eventually, nobody can access data from it.

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I stick with seagate, and avoid odd numbers.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

I've got a 5tb external I've had for 4-5 years, zero issues so far.

[GunsForBucks]

Personally have 6 WD externals
got some quite a while ago, got more about 4 years ago
Only one of the first batch has gone bad. Used it constantly but was able to get the data off, still sort of works but has issues. Probably half of them 4tb or more.

all the others seem fine though. Well one I got 4 years ago is still in the box.

[Hammer Of Evil]

Originally posted by heime2003:

it has been third time within 3 years for my WD and seagate drives to die completely. i havent mishandled them but i had a habit of using them into near full capacity. also all dead drives were 4TB model or higher. i wonder they would have lasted longer if i had left more space or just used small capacity drives(my 2TB model is still working fine)

at that point i'd be checking the USB ports, power from the pc to see if that's where the problem was coming from.

very unusual to see WD stuff die, but i admit that i do not use any WD usb drives, they are NAS or inside the case via sata, so idk.

are you sure the drive was dead? didnt try to take the drive out and hook it up to a pc?