Ive had this drive for only 8 months and have already logged 960,985 load cycle count according to hdtune.
I’ve looked around and see WD says this drive is good for 300,000 load cycles.
I’ve been using this drive as a backup drive to my main drive in windows 7 64-bit. Obviously, I’m worried this is going to fail on me very soon. What’s the word on these drives failing. Is there new firmware? I’ve read WD does not support “wdidle”
I’m not one to wait till something goes wrong when you know something is wrong. Is RMA possible?
HD Tune: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 200 200 51 0 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 176 172 21 6191 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 0 655 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 200 200 140 0 Ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 200 200 0 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 96 96 0 3577 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 0 477 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 200 200 0 59 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 1 1 0 960985 Ok
(C2) Temperature 121 117 0 29 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 200 200 0 0 Ok
Power On Time : 3577
Health Status : Ok
