Another dead external HDD

Is it applicable to internal CMR drives too?

this was why i asked were the drives moved about. they have moving parts and are susceptible to damage. i dont thing even portable HDDs are truly portable.

Has anyone went through a failed 3.5 drive? My 3.5 drives from 2012 is still working. I don’t use them these days. 500gb can’t occupy a valuable sata port

I had both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch HDD failures, which caused my entire system to slow down significantly.

2017 till now. The hdd has served her life for a good 8yrs. I’m sure you might have as well received warnings or periodical notifications if you have any monitoring tool or via bios if smart was failing or at least those frequent chkdsk scan upon reboots coupled with random freezing and or bsods!

And used in external casings as externals disks? Thats the prime reason for failure!

Rahu aur ketu ka prabhav…joking! Its just a luck factor that he is having a strong build from a great batch.

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Yup, I used to use my laptop hdd in my desktop and it gave up in 6 years with bad sectors

So, nothing is safe it seems

I did not. I am using Ubuntu and i frequently check disks-smart. It used to show some bad sectors but the overall status was okay.

Well the disk was an external drive to start with. So I didn’t have to put it on casings.

I can understand your pain

Did you check If its the drive that failed or the usb controller

Got mine about a decade ago, simple 1tb wd drives, currently running 24X7 in my home server, using them to store non mission critical data like movies and all as I’m out of sata ports. Guess they dont make them like they used tošŸ˜‚

I removed the enclosure. The usb controller is all I could find. There was no sata compatible ports. So, i have no idea what failed.

This. Older drives are working perfectly fine. Lucky you.

WD/Toshiba usb external portable drives have their usb chip soldered to the drive so if usb controller is gone then drive is also gone unless having access to professional level tools & same usb chip from same model.

Nothing can be done, HDDs Dont have lifespan beyong 10 years. Average is 4 to 5 years. Shift to nvme for storage, I have also shifted. Get enclosures and eject the drive everytime instead of plucking it directly

I am still willing to try my luck with enterprise HDDs. My important data is backed up on SSDs (wd black, samsung 990pro)

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Okay. At this point I think I am unlucky. Checked another HDD which was used for family photos and backup is showing Health status as Caution.

Power on hours only 2101 hours.

Power on count 548.

It is still under warranty (expires in September 2025). Should I try to claim warranty. It is Seagate one touch 5TB external HDD. Will Seagate replace my drive, or will they try to recover and steal my personal data (no sensitive stuff anyway)

Need advise. Should I claim warranty? Or should I take another loss and make it the fifth drive failure :frowning: