by LongRunner » August 8th, 2014, 8:02 pm
Update: As I have seldom used my ST3120026A, one of the WD800JD-00LSA0s in my older system has overtaken it in runtime, with 37,230 hours as of now (though only 728 start/stops). The other has 32,128 hours and 1,375 start/stops. S.M.A.R.T. records on both are clean save for one UDMA CRC error each.
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.
My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA‑H87M‑D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G and WD3003FZEX‑00Z4SA0, Pioneer BDR‑209DBKS and Optiarc AD‑7200S, Seasonic G‑360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3.