FS: Cabinets Misc - 2TB Seagate & 2TB WD Green (Internal), ANT VR, Umido VR Controller
eTernity2021
Disciple
your seagate according to its date code was manufactured on 2010-01-29...
and obviously WD has it on it's label was manufactured Dec 2010.
wow u have used it for 10 long years, nice to know their durability for such long years.
deusExMachina
Disciple
It's a hit or miss with hard drives. I had an old 348 MB (yeah MBs) Seagate drive that I got from a 386 (it was used for at least 10 years) and it was used in my P1 for another 10 years at least. The disk was used to full capacity cause of how little space was there. I'd uninstall programs to make space for new ones, keeping only the save files. The thing sounded like a jet engine that's crunching pebbles but it never had a data failure and I bet it still works. The only reason I moved away from it is the low capacity and well ancient IDE interface.
On the other hand, my first external hard drive was kept very delicately. I used it to store some small files and then kept it in the shelf. 3 years or so later, the damn thing breathed it's last while I was retrieving the files.
On the other hand, my first external hard drive was kept very delicately. I used it to store some small files and then kept it in the shelf. 3 years or so later, the damn thing breathed it's last while I was retrieving the files.