The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/kt8t on 2025-07-03 07:53:31.
I’ve got a weird one. My old WD Green drive, with over 92,000 power-on hours (about 10.5 years), is still working perfectly. Zero reallocated sectors, zero pending sectors, zero uncorrectable errors. SMART data looks clean.
On the other hand, my 8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS drive, just over 3 years old, is starting to fall apart.
Here are the SMART numbers:
- 4336 Retired Sectors
- 120 Reported Uncorrectable Errors
- Seek Error Rate: Raw 3.9 billion
- ECC On-the-Fly Count: 75 million
- Reported Uncorrectables (ID 187): Value 1, Raw 120
- Power-On Hours: 24,230
This IronWolf has been running in a Synology NAS in a clean, temperature-controlled home environment. Same setup as the WD Green. It’s acting like it was built to fail right after the 3-year warranty.
Is this just a bad drive or is this a trend with Seagate IronWolfs? Curious if anyone else has seen failures line up this perfectly with the end of warranty.