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alan27
Oct 29, 2011Aspirant
Disk drive diagnostic tool are they definitive ?
Hi All Can anyone let me know if the disk drive diagnostic tools are definitive. If I run the Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics tool on my 4 x 2Tb WD-20EARS CAVIAR GREEN 2TB 64MB 7200 SA...
PapaBear1
Nov 01, 2011Apprentice
alan27 - one never really knows when a drive may fail. You may not experience a failure in drives 2-4 for a long time. When I set up my NV+ over 4 1/2 years ago with two 500GB Seagates, one failed in a little over a month. The second one was still going strong when I upgraded the drive size last summer and it had over 25,600 hours on the drive. Hopefully you will not have another drive failure for some time, but one just never knows.
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