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Is this WD MyBook 6tb drive still good?
(thelemmy.club)
The drive has been only been powered on and used for read over the last 3+ years. CrystalDiskInfo reports it's bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds. Only wrote to it in the very beginning when I dumped a lot of archives into it. Otherwise, very few actual write cycles which is making me think it's still ok to use. However, this isn't a NAS drive and is consumer-grade bought many years ago.
59 hours of usage with 140 reallocated sectors and a failing read error rate - my guess would be the drive has been dropped or damaged somehow, with such low hours of usage and a failing error rate. This would be an RMA if under warranty. Don't trust it for anything important.
Typically I would expect a mechanical WD drive to last for 5 full years of usage - about 44000 hours of run time or more. I've had several reach that age with zero or very few errors.
There's a separate Power On Hours up in the information field at the top showing 30020 hours (3.5 years). Maybe CrystalDisk is having trouble interpreting the SMART data.
It's definitely out of warranty by now. Think it was bought around 2018 from Costco. I don't believe the drive has been dropped but it has been moved several times.