Does this have any type of alert or notification system built in for drive failures? This would be offsite with no visuals.
1542624
I didn't see anything in the manual that it would provide an alert. No failure yet, so I can't say from personal experience.
632287
I have heard of this issue in ASUS laptops, but have not experienced any kind of Drive failures in mine. Though Ive only had mine for a little over a year now. Sorry to hear about that, hopefully you can recover the data.
804327
No. If you hear a clicking sound on any mechanical hard drive, you better replace it or use warranty!
629561
I've just had my 4th large (>1TB) WD drive failure in less than 2 years. I've had more drives fail in the last 2 years than in the last 20. All of them large WD drives. I'm done with WD. All these failures were with drives less than 3 years old. Just absolutely unacceptable.
202443
JUNK! read the failure rate of WD products. Search some of their products on amazon and you will know. Worst, usually die after warranty. But warranty is useless bcos no one will send in the drive with personal info in there. when you send in for warranty, you usually get a refurbish back (someone's problem drive that they fixed)
777950
I have been using the this drive for several months and I have had no buzzing noises. I would be concerned about that. Sounds like there may be an issue with the drive. I had one of the book drives start dropping out like it was getting disconnected then it finally just died. I had it for about 4 years before this happened though and had already purchased another one a couple of months before the old one died. The one I have now seems to be working fine but I am not sure I would buy another one.
1000696
Sounds to me like it's coming from the RAID software and not the HDD....sorry I couldn't be of more help
1210305
I have not had any trouble at all with mine. However, I will admit that I only use it as a backup drive and it is only on about once a month for the length of time it takes to back up the drive it is linked to.
1388626
I actually had a bad drive that because of the simplicity of this device I popped in to see if I would have any better luck reading. The answer was no it behaved like you expected any hard drive to act installed in your system. It has no error correction capabilities any different than an internal hard drive on your system. If error correction could/or would be possible it would have to be something running/installed in your O/S
27160
OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
1826119
Don't recall. But drive failed within a year or so after purchase (18 months max) , so I wouldn't recommend you buy it.
1128356
Did you replace your hard drive. I am interested in doing the same thing. Thanks!!
1276030
I don't know that, but I would seriously look at the rating on this drive. Mine died an early death and I'm not the only one this has happened to.
691901
Unfortunately, there probably are those occasions where items just malfunction. I have not had that experience to date (fingers crossed), but these external hard drives all seem to eventually die. The best back-up is to have two and to also use some type of internet or Cloud back up for important files and documents.
803031
NOT from this seller - I checked both serial numbers on Seagates Warranty Validation page and see "The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service."I have a failed drive, and no response from the seller - can't send it back to Seagate.. uh oh.
42496
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking? If hard drives fail due to power issues..? If so, it's possible.
1110788
No, my drive failed completely after 2 months. No sounds, no lights, dead as a door nail.