does anyone has used these drives in a server that never goes off, and for more than 2-3 years?
1157320
I have been using this disk drive for one year in my network attached storage array for the past year going 24x7 without a problem. I got a second disk drive last month to do RAID 1 mirroring.
1157321
Even if others have...that's not an indicator that it will do the same for you. The expected life of these drives is around 2 years under conditions like that. Sometimes more, sometimes less depending on how active your drives are operating. I change these drives every 24 months whether they have failed or not. Then again, our drives are working hard every day, 5 days a week. I do shut the NAS with these drives down for 10 -12 hours 2-3 times a month.
1157322
If this help, i did use two of them in a server that has so far 16 months working, never off. No issues so far.
1372791
I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear so. Check out this discussion: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1631920/party-hard-drives-server-warranties.html
897450
Been using it for some time and haven't had that problem. I have 5 drives, three which are on all the time and two which I switch between between power offs. Have never had a drive fry.
1470848
From what I know, these drives are specifically made for servers. I used it for my Synology without any issues, and I don't think you will get any issues also.
1761021
Still working great! I have two of these in HTPCs that are on basically 24/7 and have had no issues with them.
1308220
So far I have not had any problems. Also, I haven't noticed any slowness among the drives,
2104175
I first installed two of them in April, 2014. They have both been used heavily for reading BD and DVD material without any issues. Both have also been used to write DVD's without any issues, but that has been limited. They drives appear to be well-balanced, and run quietly through all speeds. I also have not had any issues ejecting disks, even those that were scratched and otherwise defective. Overall, I'd call these drives "a safe purchase".
527108
ABSOLUTELY. I have been using a pair of 3TB, a pair of 4T and a pair of 1 TB seagates for some time with no problems. I do not use any of their special back-up software. (KIK, Ph.D.)
2180550
Yes ... but I have had too many troubles with this brand and wouldn't recommend it. Seagate, WD are more reliable drives.
80670
I have found the drive to be reliable over many months of porting between multiple computers. I have no power issues using the Firewire 800 port. I have not experienced any loosening of the port and have used it extensively interchanging between multiple machines (iMacs) as noted above.
42495
I've had mine ever since they came out early on, and Its has been turned on ever since I purchased it. Through out my years of experience, turning the hard drives off/on is more harm full than just leaving it on. I would say that my WD My Book 2TB has been on since I originally plugged it up. Do not by Seagate or Matrox. WD never gives up on me or at work. However, connect it up to a UPS black out , power strikes, and brown outs will hurt the drive worse than anything else you can allow to happen. Good Luck
260567
I'm planning on doing the same thing but only have a week or two experience with the enclosure so far. The first one failed and was quickly replaced without much fuss. So far no troubles with the new enclosure though I have not started moving files to the drive. If you are leaving it on for 24 hours you may find the blue LED a waste of energy and annoying in a darkened room. I think it would be a simple matter to unplug the LED. There's no reason it should affect the use of the drive/enclosure.
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.
1180656
I am not sure if it is true, but I read (perhaps in another review) that these are OEM drives for PC manufacturers, and hence they are not warrantied to the end user, but instead through the PC manufacturer. If you read other reviews, it is mentioned that they might be pulled from servers and the SMART data wiped. That said, I have ordered 4 of these and haven't had any complaints yet after a few months.
1267398
I have 8 of these NAS drives in a non-RAID case. They are all setup as individual drives. I move them from one computer to the next with no problems.
733723
We have over 15 of these and they are very dependable. Use RAID 5 to keep your data if a drive fails. Tech support is excellent in responding and getting a replacement drive out to you.
1936144
Cant say. I haven't had any issues with my drive at all. Its been working great for me the last few months. Mine has been HIGHLY reliable to the point