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WD Black 6TB HD

I routinely handle 50+ year old tapes. No serious issues. I've got a 40MB SA4008 Winchester that's still quite readable--I think--it's been a couple of years since I powered the thing up.
 
How things can change overnight. I was rummaging around on the shelf above my PC desk when low and behold, a Samsung 1TB 970 EVO turned up. It was a refugee from my old Intel Z170 build and I completely forgot about it. Well, tomorrow I'll stick it in the other NVME slot on the X570 Gaming-F. The 6TB black is on its way and I'm still going to use it on the big gamer. It's really a lot of fun getting old.
 
Chuck(G) said:
Do you have any opinions on "archival" SMR storage lasting 10-20 years? I'm more than a bit skeptical.
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I'd assume it'd be like any other hard drive, the less you use it, the longer it'll last.

If 30+ year old SCSI/MFM/RLL/ESDI/IDE hard drives are anything to go by, I'm sure that a good number of modern hard drives would make it that far as well.
 
GiGaBiTe said:
I'd assume it'd be like any other hard drive, the less you use it, the longer it'll last.

If 30+ year old SCSI/MFM/RLL/ESDI/IDE hard drives are anything to go by, I'm sure that a good number of modern hard drives would make it that far as well.
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Probably under 1% of those old drives are still around and working.
 
I bought one of these almost 3 years ago and I haven't had any problems.

For years I have bought WD Black drives. Never had a failure.

I would rather have a high capacity SSD, but the pricing is still too steep to warrant buying one.
 
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