How many HDD have failed on you?

So how many Hard Disk Drives HHDs have failed on you/crashed?

Me, none. Yet.

Arn't you worried it will crash any day?

I have a 8 year old PC with a 40GB HDD it was slow but was still going. But I donated it away too scared to keep my data on it.

None.

So many writes and reads and none so far.

Arn't you worried it will crash any day?

I have a 8 year old PC with a 40GB HDD it was slow but was still going. But I donated it away too scared to keep my data on it.

iampenguin

I've had one fail.  A 150GB 10K RPM.  It went died in 2010.  

Oddly enough I still have a (very) old IBM x386 running DOS that has a 10 MB (yes, Megabyte) hard drive that is still running strong.  That box was built sometime around 1986.  I fire it up every now and then for nostalgia sake.

So how many Hard Disk Drives HHDs have failed on you/crashed?

Me, none. Yet.

iampenguin

Strangely enough, only one and that's from the time of my first DIY back in 1992 to the present. The only hard drive that has died on me was a 1.6Gb IDE Western Digital hard drive. I bought it in 1996 and it died in like 2002. All other hard drives I bought since have lasted through the life of the PCs they were in. I've been extremely lucky so far.

I still have this:

I bought it back in 2001 or 2002. I can't quite recall which year. The hard drive inside is a 100Gb Hitachi Deskstar. It still works. A disk check says it doesn't have any bad clusters yet.

I have two (WD) hard drives from 2002 and they still work. One (160GB) is currently in my kid's PC. Another (200Gb) used to be in an old PC and is now in an external enclosure.

I assembled my first 2.5" non-powered external hard drive back in 2005 with a WD 55Gb Scorpio and 3rd-party external enclosure. It too still works great.

I don't know if buying hard drive "boxed" or retail have something to do with it. But, I've had excellent luck with hard drives. 

None.

one died in april 2012 and another in june 2012. they where both from a pre built i bought (and still use) from 2010. The one i have now still works fine.

one died in april 2012 and another in june 2012. they where both from a pre built i bought (and still use) from 2010. The one i have now still works fine.

surprisingly only 1 external so far ( my main rig has a 6 year old seagate and still going strong and fast )adamosmaki

Every single one of my old hard drives died. I have had 3 die on my so far

Every single one of my old hard drives died. I have had 3 die on me so far

0. I have a HDD that was used from a super old computer, I think 2006 that I keep stuff on in this one. I do believe my hdd is dying in my laptop though. I can hear it clicking and it sometimes take awhile to load things. Crystal Disk says it's okay, but not sure if I should believe that at all.2ndWonder

0. I have a HDD that was used from a super old computer, I think 2006 that I keep stuff on in this one. I do believe my hdd is dying in my laptop though. I can hear it clicking and it sometimes take awhile to load things. Crystal Disk says it's okay, but not sure if I should believe that at all.2ndWonder

It didn't fail me but I fried one of my Hard drives before in my laptop wich led to a chain reaction. After it fried I sent it to person to get it fixed and had a new hard drive that ran a little faster but less space. After a couple months it started to fail and had to get another one that was less space. Right now with this hard drive it takes 10 secs to boot and after I get to the desktop it takes a few minutes before I can do anything. I am ready to just throw the hard drive out and get a 120gb ssd and 500gb hdd.

Personally, I've only had 1 drive fail for me in roughly the 10 or so I've had.

At work it seems like I see at least 2 or so a week.  Western Digi drives don't seem to like Texas weather very much or something...

Luckily that number to this day remains at zero.

Only one in my life. I put it in the freezer for an hour to get it working for just enough time to salvage some important data

I have had only one start acting up.... I replaced it before it failed.

None so far but they do tend to make a lot of noise over time. But recently fixed my problem as again after a year it was making a bad humming noise and thought Nooooooo. any way I opened up my pc and took the HDD cleaned it and move the wires etc put it back in nice and snug and the noise went away.

had one 500GB go a little squirly on me but was able to recover it. still in use though not as my boot drive any longer.

I have had about 4-6 HDD's fail on me over the course of about 8 years or so. No SSD's have failed me yet. (Knock on wood)

I never had a HDD failure, thankfully. The closest I came to one was one external that had power issues before failing. It would not turn off at all via the power button and unplugging it from the wall was the only way. It would not turn back on after I did such a thing (waste of power just to leave it plugged in). Thankfully, I was able to remove the hard drive from its casing and install it inside my PC as the hard drive was basically an internal with it's own external casing.

Absolutely none, all of mine have been great.

I've been lucky on the disk failure front, I've been a PC user since the 486 days and have never had a drive fail on me. I do have a mate that was unfortunate enough to have two fail in the same PC within weeks of each other though.

Zero

A Maxtor and one Toshia HDD in my Laptop.

None.

Even the hdd from my 10 year old laptop is still working.(the laptop itself doesn't work though)

Surprisingly, none. The main HDD in my desktop is a 250GB Seagate from 2005 with > 25 000 hours on it. That's not the oldest HDD I have, but it does have the most hours.

1 although I am unsure if It should Count. Had an external seagate fall off the desk while used, caused it make the dreaded clicking noices and got really slow. So... One over the span of 20 years.