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Background:

In many occasions, I suffered a lot from HDD failure. I found that even reputable brands could faulty model. For example, all of my 1.5TB WD Green HDDs died within the 1st year.

I personally do not care about company’s warranty replacement policy since I don’t want to spend time and replace the HDD – too often.

I personally don’t care about the speed of the HDD. I do care about the longevity and reliability of an HDD. The problem is most benchmark sites compare HDD performance rather than their reliability.

Question:

Is there any benchmark resource that assesses the longevity and reliability of an HDD model?

What is the best way to assess or predict the reliability of a new arrival HDD model? For example, I rather not to gamble and install something like this HDD then have to spend time and replace it in two years.

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There is a new project to estimate reliability of hard drives according to Google/Backblaze studies: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART/blob/master/README.md

It measures reliability by counting several SMART errors, that usually correlate with real hard drive failures: Reported_Uncorrect, Reallocated_Sector_Ct, Current_Pending_Sector, etc.

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