The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SaarN on 2024-05-21 19:44:57.
I bought this drive last year because it was on sale and came with 5 years of warranty (and they're way cheaper now due to the bad rep), and I've just found out it has HW issues.
Although WD website states that my drive's firmware doesn't need to be updated, I've seen people complaining about losing data while using up-to-date drives.
How should I tackle this? It's supposed to be a portable backup drive - but it's totally worthless if I can't trust it to keep my files safe.
I thought of testing the drive before putting it into actual use. Like fill it up a few times and then formatting - over and over.
I don't want to kill it by exceeding the writes\reads limits, but to make it sweat a bit and check whether it's trustworthy to be used as a.. portable drive.
What do you guys think? Any suggestions?