So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?
Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?
This one is currently a paperweight
It depends on the kind of use they are used for computing, gaming etc. For storage of just the data they won’t get much wear and tear and last long. The optimum power supply, data usage, read/write operations are markers for these drives, the more in use, lower voltage supply makes them die faster.