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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1872050" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>That has been my experience.</p><p>I can't even remember if I ever had an actual failure of the mechanical part, ie platters, head, motor.</p><p>The most recent one was a quite old 1.5TB 3.5-inch WD - turns out the board that is part of the drive to provide the SATA interface failed.</p><p>Luckily I had a second WD drive of exactly the same type - unplugged the board from that and the dead drive came back to life.</p><p>But unfortunately, buying a replacement board is around $US40.-, not really worthwhile considering I just bought a 2TB 2.5-inch USB 3.0 portable for $C 69.-</p><p>But at least I can easily get all my data off.</p><p></p><p>PS: Makes me a bit uneasy about the reliability of SSDs which are essentially all electronics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1872050, member: 67742"] That has been my experience. I can't even remember if I ever had an actual failure of the mechanical part, ie platters, head, motor. The most recent one was a quite old 1.5TB 3.5-inch WD - turns out the board that is part of the drive to provide the SATA interface failed. Luckily I had a second WD drive of exactly the same type - unplugged the board from that and the dead drive came back to life. But unfortunately, buying a replacement board is around $US40.-, not really worthwhile considering I just bought a 2TB 2.5-inch USB 3.0 portable for $C 69.- But at least I can easily get all my data off. PS: Makes me a bit uneasy about the reliability of SSDs which are essentially all electronics. [/QUOTE]
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