I have brought a 5tb hard drive from cex and it has 45000hours of power on time. Is this likely to fail or can I use it for a few years? I use it for movies.
I have brought a 5tb hard drive from cex and it has 45000hours of power on time. Is this likely to fail or can I use it for a few years? I use it for movies.
So starting off, HDD lifetime is really difficult to gauge, but this drive is already ~2000 hours past the average expected life for an HDD.
I would expect it to fail sometime within the next 12 months.
Don’t store anything on there that you aren’t willing to lose.