four signs your harddrive is failing

[K3k0m@n]

Yeah, my family's harddrive downstairs once dissapeared from the list of harddisks,
it seems to make normal noises
but the computer DOES crash a few times, mostly BSOD's

time to get a new harddrive?

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[iStarzy]

My computer was slow on booting probably cause I had 300gb of stuff on it (It's a laptop and the boot time was like 20 seconds). Installed windows 8.1 and formatted during the install == no bloatware and fresh and clean PC. Boot time is like 5 seconds (Not bad for a 4 year old laptop :) )

It BSOD'd one time in it's lifetime because of a Kernal error or something about power. I noped it out of there. My laptop also makes continuous beeps on startup but I figured it was because the battery was dead lol.

[D3ATH LORD]

Ssd master race

Those things wear out faster than HDD's.

[Rally]

RIP my old hard drive

+200 blockland saves

[Clear Glass]

Those things wear out faster than HDD's.

So far I have had mine since 2012 and it's still working like the day I got it.

[Mr Queeba]

Our first computer was a HP Pavilion with a Pentium 3 and Windows ME. I saw it a couple of years ago (My uncle was extracting the Hard Drive and RAM) and I don't know where it is now.

[D3ATH LORD]

So far I have had mine since 2012 and it's still working like the day I got it.

They only wear out when you write to them. And even then, 2 years definitely isn't enough time to tell how reliable something is. I just took in my mum's old computer which has an IDE HDD that has been working ever day for 10 years, and even then my Dad first got it from a university when they were having a clear out of old hardware, so it's even older than that. when your SSD still works after 15+ years I will take back what I said.