Ars Technica

Failure Rate of Western Digital 2TB Drives

In the last year, I've purchased 8 of the Western Digital 2TB Green drives (WD20EARS) through Newegg. Of those 8 drives, 3 had hardware failures either at initial powerup or within a day or two... the ...
Cult of Mac

What 35 million days of real-world use tell us about which hard drive to buy

Statistics on hard drive reliability just released by data-storage company Backblaze would seem to indicate it’s not a good idea to buy a Seagate hard drive. Of the 104,954 drives it uses, Seagate’s ...
Computerworld

When will your hard drive fail?

It’s only appropriate that I found a story idea on storage failure right as I experienced the worst hard drive failure of my life. Long story short, after two days of agony, I lost some downloaded ...
Ars Technica

Failure Rate of Western Digital 2TB Drives

The drive occasionally makes a weird buzzy noise (and did when I reran the SMART test one last time) so I decided to attempt the RMA. WD's website had no issue with the RMA, they shipped out a drive ...